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About
An Art Project: Handmade notebooks from discarded papers
Refuse is a part of people’s consumption practices. It is a very common concept from rural areas to developed cities, from ancient societies to modern ones. It is not wanted, thrown away, kept away. It is considered as useless and disgusting. Contrary to the common approach "one man's trash is another man's treasure".
With the collaboration of many people discarded papers, packages are collected from different places. This time they are not thrown away. They are collected and saved. Later they are transformed to notebooks by hand with traditional methods. Juxtaposition of trashes create notebooks that are different than the blank industrial ones, and through them challenged the widespread understanding of trash. Read more...
Through this project, I put all my effort to re-imagine, re-consider and re-think the trash. This project aims to find new potentials on trash (or through trash) in every dimension by examining its both visual value and social meaning.
The purpose is not to build an object that is produced from discarded material in order to watch it from distance. The important thing is to interact with it. It is already discarded and general behavior is to avoid from it. This work must change it. It must call the viewer to interact with it. In other words, trash must be accepted by them. This project asks people to readmit the trash to the their life. For this reason notebooks are given away free at various places where people visit frequently. By doing that once thrown materials would find a place with new purposes in the community.
This project is started as a hobby and later turned to MFA thesis project. Currently I am looking new places to give away notebooks.
Mustafa ilhan April 2016, Ankara
NOTEBOOKS
Handmade notebooks from trash
Upcycling community's refuse with community's records, ideas, memories...
Notebooks have been used for different purposes such as drawing, writing and recording results of experiments, ideas or memoranda by many artists, scientists, and thinkers through the ages. Here there are different types of notebooks regarding their color, shape, size and combination. They are simple, imperfect and different than usual industrial notebooks, but more importantly they are from trash. Every one of them has a unique serial and with that serial the (hi)story of it can be viewed.
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Other series will be added soon.
Puzzle
23 pieces, around 20x15 cm.
TRASHES
Trash is everywhere and produced everytime
There are many different types of paper are collected several places. Some of them have stories and some don't.
Burger King Bags
Starbucks Bags
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Others will be added soon.
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Progress
Puzzle
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Progress
July 2011
Banner
Graduation banner of METU Computer Engineering new grads.
2015
Cutting
Long banner cut out to the small pieces.
2015
Cover
2015
Merged
Cover and paper sew together.
Collaborators
Many people participated in this project. They are co-author of the project. It is open to everyone and you can also join! notebook.projectkulu.be
Ersan Ocak (supervisor and donator of trash)
Mehmet Yılmaz (advisor, thesis committee member)
Ekin Kılıç (advisor, thesis committee member)
Ayşenur Durgut (donator of trash)
Emrah Şamdan (donator of trash)
Duygu Ç. Şamdan (donator of trash)
Özgür Deniz Önür (donator of trash)
Yağız Yaşaroğlu (donator of trash)
Ekin Dino (donator of trash)
Ayşegül Yaşaroğlu (donator of trash)
Süleyman Yılmaz (donator of trash)
Aytaç Kocaman (donator of trash)
M. Elgin Akpınar (donator of trash)
Nihan Özdemirler (donator of trash)
B. Ceren Üstündağ (donator of trash)
M. Cem B. Üstündağ (donator of trash)
Mr. Aykut from Modshifters (donator of trash)
Mr. Ali from İşbank Ankara Teknokent Office (donator of trash)
