Working with the fluctuating rhythms of every day life OF DICE AND MEN is an essayistic video diary punctuated by moments of subjective consequence and markers in a shared history. Presented indialogue across two screens, the work mainly come from London and Istanbul, two cities which Pekün’s life straddles-and is torn between. It includes footage of the Occupy movements that began in London in 2011 as well as Istanbul’s Gezi protests in 2013, interlaced with more joyful and elusive experiences: boys diving into the Bosphorus or a first encounter with a feat of nature. Attuned to the differing neoliberal conditions, dynamics and pressures of these contexts, Pekün mediates moments of rupture and violence in day-to-day life. Indeed, Pekün originally picked up her camera hoping to capture and make sense of a present that she felt was shifting around her–palpable in both the events unfolding in these cities, but also in the emergence of a new political subjectivity that was awakening from its slumber. In the film, her diary entries are each given different formal and linguistic treatment-a newessay, reflecting on ideas and issues that arise from the events the dice throws. In this sense of dice and men is a reflection on how we react to and negotiate the unfolding present–where subjectivity andpolitical agency are brought to bear.
A film installation by Didem Pekün
Digital Compositing Barış Doğrusöz
Sound Design Fatih Rağbet
Sound Mix Metin Bozkurt
Translator Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
Colour (Colour, Black and White or Both) Both
Language English/Turkish
Written, performed and produced by Reverie Falls On All, Nihan Devecioğlu (Mezzo Soprano), Eri Hidaka (Soprano), Les jeux sont faits
Composed recorded and mixed by Tommaso Perego, Eloisa Manera (Violin), Tommaso Perego (Max MSP)
As part of a practice-based PhD at Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths
With the kind support of Delfina Foundation and SAHA Association–Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey
Of Dice and Men
2011-2016 43 Minutes 2 Screen Video Installation Turkey / UK