Sinema Amnesia

Mark Wallinger has chosen the narrowest part of the strait for his installation, and draws on a pincer movement of associations.

The Dardanelles hold a fascination as old as history and as enduring as the mythology that has sprung from their age old position at the junction of Europe and Asia. Empires have clashed here for millennia, in fact and fable... The straits and the peninsular beyond are central not only to the story of modern Turkey, but a defining moment for two countries on the other side of the globe. (Mark Wallinger)

Wallinger will build a small temporary cinema in front of the Çimenlik Fortress, overlooking the First World War graves of Gallipoli, and the strait. It will screen non-stop footage of that patch of the strait from 24 hours before, where the narrow shipping lanes are clogged with container ships, plying their trade between east and west. The film (titled Ulysses) contemplates Canakkale’s converging flow of myth, history and daily life.