A (Temporalily) Non Stationary Resource
2026
Istanbul
A (Temporalily) Non Stationary Resource is a video project that approaches floating power plants both as infrastructural structures and as circulating organisms. These vessels travel across open waters, enter ports, and transfer energy to onshore grids; they are both visible and inaccessible. Rather than treating this inaccessibility as a limitation, the project considers it as a condition of production in itself.
Instead of directly recording the interiors of these structures, the work reconstructs them. Technical drawings, system diagrams, maps, and archival materials are combined with animation and staged structures to create a speculative representation of spaces that are known to exist but cannot be seen. Control rooms, engine rooms, instrument panels, corridors, and the vessels’ movement across the sea are brought together to construct a fictional video environment. The distance between documentation and fiction becomes the work’s central formal question.
Within this framework, the floating power plant is considered not merely as an energy infrastructure, but as a structure that is mobile, temporary, and partially inaccessible. Rather than seeking definitive answers to questions such as where energy is produced, how it is transported, and through which spaces it passes, the project transforms these questions into a visual and auditory field of inquiry. By removing energy production from the notion of a fixed site, the work turns it into a structure through which its mobile and speculative dimensions can be explored.
Burak Kabadayı
Burak Kabadayı (b. 1989, Kırşehir) lives and works in Istanbul. Through installations combining video, sound, and various objects, Kabadayı focuses on forms of energy production and expenditure, as well as different forms of movement. He is interested in constructing environments through structures that interact and exchange with other elements they encounter—whether naturally or artificially—and that evolve and transform over time. His practice reconfigures possibilities of co-existence and disappearance, as well as different modes of perception.
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Marmara University in 2014 and continued his postgraduate studies. His solo exhibitions include Çölde Olduğunu Söylemenin Anlamı Yok [There Is No Point in Saying You Are in the Desert] (2024, İmalat-Hane, Bursa), Sabit Değişiklikler, Dinamik Aralıklar [Constant Changes, Dynamic Ranges] (2021, AVTO, Istanbul), 24 Saat [24 Hours] (2017, PASAJ, Istanbul), and 20’sinden Sonra [After 20] (2016, Mixer, Istanbul).
Selected group exhibitions include Nedensel İlişkilerden Belirtisel Göstergeler Başkalaşımlar [From Causal Relations to Indicative Signs, Transformations] (2022, Sanatorium, Istanbul), Yabancı Bir Göz [A Foreign Eye] (2022, Nilüfer Sanat, Bursa), Kök [Root] (2018, Santral Istanbul), and Hiçbir Şey Görememek [Seeing Nothing] (2017, Alt Art Space, Istanbul).
In 2017, Kabadayı participated in the Baştan Başlamak [Starting Over] exchange programme organised by the Istanbul Biennial, Liverpool Biennial, and Protocinema. In 2023, he participated in SAHA Studio.
Connections:
http://burakkabadayi.com
This page is published on 20 August 2026.
