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This work constitutes part of a series produced within the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, SE Turkey. It follows the lines of the diverging geological narratives of basalt and cement into the mapping of the material, the economic, and the ideological traces in the post-ceasefire urban landscape of rapid re-development. It draws on Manuel De Landa’s work on nonlinear history -- the city as an organism produced by flows of the geological, the biological and the linguistic. The work attempts to think self-reflexively about the being-in-translation in the site/non-site spaces, and the moments of the extraction of narratives in the same space as that of materials. Text and Voice by Mehmet Atlı It was commissioned and supported by the British Council and Diyarbakir Sanat Merkezi.
