IN / IZ - Audiovisual Performance
IN/IZ is an audiovisual performance that explores translation, and the visual-sonic afterlives of images. Rooted in the Turkish word iz—meaning trace, mark, or imprint—the project weaves a fragmented archive of photos and texts into a live synthesis of sound and image.
At the center of in/iz is an analog video synthesizer that transforms the material presence of two cameras filming images rotating on a turntable. This live video feed is processed, layered, and fed through a video mixer to generate a fluid, recursive landscape of feedback and distortion. The resulting visuals—multiplied across nine screens arranged spatially around the audience—become a hall of mirrors where images flicker, collapse, and re-emerge.
Sound is not separate but emerges directly from the video signal. The audio born from visual frequencies is processed through guitar pedals, bending and mutating its texture before spreading as a four-channel soundscape that encircles the audience. This interdependence between sound and image creates a feedback-driven ecosystem: a performance that thinks through media decay, tactile memory, and the poetics of synthesis.
With its non-linear structure and continuous transformation, IN/IZ invites the audience into a spatial encounter with traces—of people, places, texts, and technologies—echoing and mutating across signal paths and surfaces. It is both a choreography of light and a composition of noise, mapping the residue of memory into a live sonic-visual terrain.