İlker Ortaç / Work
DEV-FANZİN archive
DEV-FANZİN issues in Ortaç’s independent publishing practice are brought together with covers and reading links.
From life to creative practice
Ortaç’s relationship with punk and underground culture also finds a place in independent publishing. His artist statement records that he founded DEV-FANZİN. The fanzine appears in his portfolio as a space where different texts and images meet and circulate.
From making to presentation
- Source work: this record retains its own title and available publication information.
- Portfolio context: biography and the work’s form are read together without confusing fiction with biography.
- Access: the relevant link opens the reading, viewing or publication record for this work.
From the studio: a creative reconstruction
A first-person creative reconstruction drawing on the biography and artworks.
I imagine a table with pages placed side by side: a face, a headline, an overflowing sentence. The parts do not have to speak in the same tone. I want their proximity to disturb each other, leaving some friction unpolished.
Working around DEV-FANZİN archive, my attention returns to this detail: DEV-FANZİN issues in Ortaç’s independent publishing practice are brought together with covers and reading links. In the next passage, I imagine pulling back anything that weakens that encounter and leaving the areas holding its tension open for longer.
In the final passage, I imagine returning the work to its own context. I leave room for reading a page, looking at a frame or watching the film beyond the narrative assembled here.