Alçıtepe Residency (16–29 June)
The Alçıtepe residency represented the core methodological experiment of EGEHUB. Conducted over fourteen days, it enabled sustained co-presence between artists, researchers, and residents in a highly charged mnemonic landscape shaped by population exchange, wartime destruction, and resettlement. Each workshop functioned as a specific methodological entry point into understanding how memory operates through atmosphere, land, body, and sound.
Hauntology Workshop
Led by Mert Koçak with 10 participants, this workshop introduced theoretical tools for examining how unresolved histories persist not through explicit accounts but through atmospheres, spatial tension, and everyday objects. Participants discussed their haunted stories.
Oral History & Gallipoli Workshop
Moderated by the GAR research team and attended by 10 participants, the session compared official memorialization structures with resident narratives. Participants examined where silences appear, why certain histories dominate, and how family genealogies diverge from state-curated versions of the past. This workshop positioned oral history as an instrument for identifying omissions, fractures, and contested memory regimes.
Olive Memory Workshop
Organized by İyi Bak Derneği conveyed by Burcu Gülhan with 20 participants, this workshop demonstrated how agricultural practices function as repositories of intergenerational knowledge. Participants examined cultivation rhythms, grafting methods, and harvesting techniques as embodied forms of memory linked to displacement, adaptation, and re-rooting. The workshop showed that practices around land use often preserve memory more effectively than narrative accounts.
Body and Migration Workshop
Moderated by Ertürk Erkek and Ezgi Adanç, this session involved 6 artists and 2 researchers. Participants explored how posture, gesture, and movement patterns encode historical experiences of rupture and re-establishment. The workshop demonstrated that memory can manifest somatically—through tension, rhythm, or repetition—before becoming cognitively articulated.
Cultural Return Game Workshop
Led by Meli R. Öztürk with 4 artists and 2 researchers, this workshop centered on the board game Cultural Return—an anti-colonial, research-based game developed specifically for the EGEHUB exhibition. The session combined gameplay, critical discussion, and reflective analysis to explore how cultural objects move across borders, and how these movements shape contemporary understandings of heritage, belonging, and historical injustice.
