Fiber Optic Rotating Flower
Ömer Sarıgedik
Salt Beyoğlu
December 10, 2024 – February 2, 2025
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Courtesy Ömer Sarıgedik
Courtesy Ömer Sarıgedik
Winter Garden
Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them continues with Ömer Sarıgedik’s installation Fiber Optic Rotating Flower.
Inspired by the fiber optic flower, a popular decorative item from the 1980s that featured a stage-like mechanism, Sarıgedik’s work departs from the use of plants as living organisms for ornamental purposes. The artist creates an 8-hour-long composition made up of different fragments, each produced for a specific plant in the Winter Garden, as a homage to Mort Garson’s 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Visitors can follow the plants to which each musical fragment is dedicated through a timetable.
Sarıgedik will talk about the installation and perform live on December 10 at 19.00. The talk will be held in Turkish.
The program is realized as part of L’Internationale’s Museum of the Commons project and with the support of EK BİÇ YE İÇ.
Ömer Sarıgedik is a bass guitarist, sound designer, and composer based in Istanbul. He has been working as a sound designer for theaters, contemporary art institutions, and audiovisual media channels since 2005. He uses alternative types of sampling formed by the characteristics of noise, IDM, glitch, and abstract in his DJ sets and radio programs. Compiling the sound design and composition works produced for theaters since 2005 into a trilogy, Sarıgedik released the first album of the series, Tiyatrobir, in 2024.
*Limited seats. No reservations.
Warm Earth Sounds for Plants and the People Who Love Them continues with Ömer Sarıgedik’s installation Fiber Optic Rotating Flower.
Inspired by the fiber optic flower, a popular decorative item from the 1980s that featured a stage-like mechanism, Sarıgedik’s work departs from the use of plants as living organisms for ornamental purposes. The artist creates an 8-hour-long composition made up of different fragments, each produced for a specific plant in the Winter Garden, as a homage to Mort Garson’s 1976 album Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Visitors can follow the plants to which each musical fragment is dedicated through a timetable.
Sarıgedik will talk about the installation and perform live on December 10 at 19.00. The talk will be held in Turkish.
The program is realized as part of L’Internationale’s Museum of the Commons project and with the support of EK BİÇ YE İÇ.
Ömer Sarıgedik is a bass guitarist, sound designer, and composer based in Istanbul. He has been working as a sound designer for theaters, contemporary art institutions, and audiovisual media channels since 2005. He uses alternative types of sampling formed by the characteristics of noise, IDM, glitch, and abstract in his DJ sets and radio programs. Compiling the sound design and composition works produced for theaters since 2005 into a trilogy, Sarıgedik released the first album of the series, Tiyatrobir, in 2024.
*Limited seats. No reservations.
