eylem:duygu

The workshop was designed by Eylem Ertürk and realised for the first time in 2025 in the Mediterranean Sea in Kaş, Türkiye.

How do we feel at sea? How do we relate to marine life? How do we perceive the increasing changes along the coastlines? The effects of climate change, invasive species, displacement and seas as migration routes, capital-driven coastlines, the right of access to the sea, the privatisation of coasts, tourism and beaches as holiday and leisure destinations… Amidst all these human-induced subjects, in this workshop, we all get into the water, moving together and alone; we connect differently with the more-than-human depths of marine life.

19 October 2025, Kaş Public Beach, Kaş, Türkiye | Kaş Performance Days Artist Residency Program | Curated by Açıkalan Performans (Şule Ateş) in collaboration with Stal van Dingo (Ilgın Abeln) | Organised by Kaş Çevre ve Kültür Derneği | Supported by Kültür için Alan & Culture Civic

Swimming~Writing~Walking is a workshop that examines the more-than-human ecology from both hydro- and terrestrial perspectives, exploring different ways of coexisting in motion at the threshold of the seashore. With 12 participants who took the challenge and joined me in the workshop, we got in the sea, moving together and alone, connecting differently with the more-than-human depths of marine life. We swam with different prompts focusing on the group, our bodies and other bodies in the water. We then walked along the coast, put our experience into writing and shared these texts written from the perspective of other living and inanimate bodies in the sea: the belone swimming deep down in the water, the little blue fish, a lost single slipper swimming in the water, a beam of light reflecting on the water, a drop of water, the whole body of the sea, a sea turtle, the gray/blue fish with stripes on the tail, the yellow fish with black stripes, waves, stones and a rock in the sea, sea grass, a dolphin.