Instagram Takeover: Pinar Yolas

Pinar Yoldas takes over our Instagram account during Brighton Digital Festival in September 2017.

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Pinar Yoldas, Ph.D. is an infradisciplinary scholar and architect whose work operates under the framework of science and technology. Her curiosity-driven work has been exhibited internationally in group shows including the Istanbul Biennial, Nordic Biennial, ZKM, National Museum of Art Beijing, Transmediale, Sonic Acts and solo shows in S2S Amsterdam, Polyteknikum Moscow, Schering Stiftung Berlin and Roda Sten Konstall Sweden. She is a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim fellow and a Future Emerging Art and Technology award recipient. She had her first solo exhibition when she was five and holds a bronze medal in Chemistry Olympics. She is in a long distance relationship with a cat.

@photoworks_uk by @pinaryoldaas #global #warming #hot #yoga #practice Global Warming Yoga Studio offers a collective sweating experience in the face of the impending consequences of climate change. The yoga platform becomes a stage for a performer/yogini, who leads a class following a scripted ypga sequence. The yogini takes them into a relaxing journey into the molecular dimensions of the anthropocene, as practitioners sweat throughdifferent asanas, : ” inhale, and bring your attenion to all the particulate matter landing on your alveoles … exhale and let go of your cognitive dissonance…” The practice takes place in front of 200+ heat lamps that convey the letters G-L-O-B-A-L-W-A-R-M-I-N-G #? #red #Bikram #art

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@photoworks_uk by @pinaryoldaas #Global #Warming #hot #Yoga #Studio offers a collective sweating experience in the face of the impending consequences of climate change. The yoga platform becomes a stage for a performer/yogini, who leads a class following a scripted ypga sequence. The yogini takes them into a relaxing journey into the molecular dimensions of the anthropocene, as practitioners sweat throughdifferent asanas, : ” inhale, and bring your attenion to all the particulate matter landing on your alveoles … exhale and let go of your cognitive dissonance…” The practice takes place in front of 200+ heat lamps that convey the letters G-L-O-B-A-L-W-A-R-M-I-N-G.

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@photoworks_uk by @pinaryoldaas #closeup #organ from an #ecosystemofexcess which emerges in #pacifictrashvortex . Pacific Trash Vortex is a monument of plastic waste at a global scale. Referring to Kantian aesthetics, it is a truly ‘sublime’ kinetic sculpture built by all the nations around the Pacific Ocean over many years of mindless, unsustainable consumption. Pacific Trash Vortex is where plastic bottle caps meet the Laysan albatross’ digestive tract In other words out there in the ocean, there is a site of interchange between the organic and the synthetic, a site of fusion between #nature and #culture.

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@photoworks_uk by @pinaryoldaas a #closeup from an #ecosystemofexcess An Ecosystem of Excess is an attempt to create a post-human eco-system, a living community of speculative organisms and their environment. The project takes the idea that we are surrounded by “man-made extreme environments” as its starting point. A man-made extreme environment is a site of excess, where leftovers of our capitalistic desires and consumerist actions are accumulated. Hence junkyards, landfills, wastelands are all examples of “man-made extreme environments’. An Ecosystem of Excess starts in the Pacific Trash Vortex. #speculative #fiction #bio

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