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A talk on an upcoming book about dams, trees, graft, highways, court cases, Euphrates, mountain goats, and may be panic.<\/p>\n
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With contributors: Asl\u0131han Demirta\u015f, Ali Tapt\u0131k, Hakan Topal, Evren Uzer<\/strong><\/p>\n Tuesday, February 7, 2017<\/p>\n 1:00pm \u2013 3:00pm<\/p>\n The Orozco Room, Alvin Johnson \/ JM Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th St A712 New York<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cTo make a graft you need two plants. Chose one plant for its roots. This plant will be called the stock, understock or the host. Chose another plant for its flowers, fruits or leaves and only its branches will be used. This plant will be called the scion. Now, you have given names to separate pieces of two different trees and by naming them you have successfully transformed two trees into components for grafting. Let\u2019s note briefly that \u201cthe history of separation between humankind and Earth begins and ends with language, in the form of the name \u2013 the calling of things either this or that \u2013 that the first philosopher, Adam, is commanded to give to creation, but that very same name\u2019s translation into languages of men communicates nothing inherent to the thing other than what it means to man, how it mediates the human. Man sounds the Earth.\u201d By putting an end to the inherent growth of the trees and by naming the divided bodies this and that, you have successfully privileged your own voice over everything else in the world, you have dominated and appropriated it.\u201d<\/p>\n Graft is a voluntary dispersal of ideas and topics rooted in the exhibition \u2018Modern Essays 5: Graft\u2019 by Aslihan Demirta\u015f, exhibited at SALT in \u0130stanbul 2012 and Ankara 2013. In 2013, Demirta\u015f received a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant to continue her research and to produce the e-publication\u00a0Graft<\/em>\u00a0in collaboration with SALT. The exhibition utilized the concept of grafting as a metaphor to provoke a discussion of modernity’s politics of nature through modern hydraulic engineering projects and landscapes focused on, but not limited to, dams in Turkey.<\/p>\n This book is conceived as an entanglement of a multitude of texts, images, graphics, science fiction, poems and similar. Human-Earth relationship is mostly tackled from singular points of view of particular disciplines and their specializations. Each discipline detangles situations with their specialized world views and tools and often what we see is a single thread drawn from an entangled knot. The book intends to re-entangle and purposefully complicate \u2019our\u2019 relationship with \u2018nature\u2019 by creating a common ground together with lawyers, architects, poets, historians, designers, artists, writers, landscape architects, and ruralists.<\/p>\n GRAFT is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Grant and will be published online by SALT. This event is supported by Design Strategies at Parsons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A talk on an upcoming book about dams, trees, graft, highways, court cases, Euphrates, mountain goats, and may be panic. With contributors: Asl\u0131han Demirta\u015f, Ali Tapt\u0131k, Hakan Topal, Evren Uzer Tuesday, February 7, 2017 1:00pm \u2013 3:00pm The Orozco Room, Alvin Johnson \/ JM Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th St A712 New York…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56,83,60,82,55,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-faculty-events","category-faculty-news","category-featured-news","category-news","category-upcoming-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n