100° Collective Text

 

We run a collaborative traditional arts atelier with women on the 4th floor of Flo building (Anatolian Passage) at İstiklal Street. With anybody who considers themselves as a woman. A traditional arts atelier gets around like a gossip, from mouth to mouth. It intends to provide criticism on subjects of traditional art books.

 

For instance, if miniature is a form of information design, then we don’t still in need to tell about Ottoman Empire but we can tell contemporary. This is exact point traditional arts seem to hold a similarity with being a woman in a society, in the struggle against conservatism and unliberatedness.

 

Thus in 100° it was assumed that women could instrumentalize traditional arts and create an effective language. Songs, poems, letters could be decorated, or a variety of worlds could be drawn with flowers, trees, clouds. It can be considered as a course; however; it is certain that its systematic fall out of traditional education system.

 

We aren’t even sure if it has a defined system. We bound through our womanhood and then we are producing works by means of traditional arts. While the atelier mostly relates to drawings on paper, it also inclines to interior decoration, visual installations and literature. Its context enables valuable emotions or concepts, which can be decorated, which requires pictorial narration to be told, to be turned into miniatures. It wishes to dive into depths of what seems surficial but still playing with the deep on the surface.