2019, Bergama, 10' 07'', color

A film by Hera Büyüktaşcıyan

Editing & Sound Design: Gizem Bayıksel, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan   

Narration: Hera Büyüktaşcıyan

 

Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky is inspired by a floor mosaic in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum known as the Alexandrine Parakeet Mosaic (160–150 BC) that was taken from the Zeus Altar of Pergamon. In the film, the depicted parakeet returns back to its place of origin to Bergama to unfold layers of time and narrate histories that has left in purgatory. While the piece weaves connections between the notion of unearthing architectural memory and retracing invisibility through contested histories– Büyüktaşcıyan broadens these notions and takes us on a journey that traverses time and landscapes by reflecting upon the sense of representation through the paradoxical relationship between erasure, reconstruction and the cyclic status of being in between.