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Light in the Window is a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary artistic transduction project — a practice of carrying live performance and poetry across into digital, audiovisual form, rather than translating them into fixed meaning. It began as a collaboration in Istanbul between author Osman Özçakar (@oziosmanozcakar), choreographer Ebru Cansız (@ebrucansizprojects), and theatre director and actor Selim Can Yalçın (@selimcanyalcin), who came together as sOmO (sound and movement) collective to create a poetic dance-theatre piece titled Evdeki Ses (Sound in the House).
Left to right: Osman Cakar , Ebru Cansiz, Selim Can Yalcin
In partnership with capitArtX media lab, the collective transforms the original physical performance—structured around poetic chapters enacted by dancers—into a digitally reimagined audiovisual poetry installation. This transformation results in Light in the Window, an experimental digital format of the Evdeki Ses project, composed of fragmented video artworks art directed by capitArtX director and curator Isil Ezgi Celik and Harwich Festival of the Arts Visual Director and multimedia artist Helen Spencer as the lead artist of the digital artworks. Each video fragment incorporates a cited poem accompanied by original sound design, weaving together movement, voice, and visual composition to create an immersive experience.
The Apartment of Years Gone By is the first experimental video piece created as a fragment of this evolving project.
The Apartment of Years Gone By, Fragment ‘o1, Light In the Window, 4’44”
Author: Osman Ozcakar | Director: Selim Can Yalcin | Choreographer: Ebru Cansiz | Sound Design: Thomas Vittek | Performers: Beril Senoz & Selim Can Yalcin | Video Art Direction: Isil Ezgi Celik & capitArtX Media Lab | Video Editor: Ozgur Samlioglu
Poems are integrated into the video works, questioning the limits and possibilities of translation across languages, and of transduction across media and disciplines — the conversion of one sensory register into another, rather than a search for equivalence between them. Through this multilayered transformation, the project moves from a local reflection on urban life to a broader exploration of humanity’s evolving relationship with the Earth, particularly in relation to the notion of belonging. It examines how subjectivity, isolation, and coexistence are shaped by both urban and ecological systems. Drawing from the live material, the collaborators transduce gestures, movement, and sonic rhythms into a poetic visual language — carrying their energy and rhythm across into image and sound rather than translating them into fixed meaning. In this way, Light in the Window experiments with non-verbal poetics and sensory expression, asking: how can poetry exist beyond spoken language? Can rhythm, light, and vibration carry a shared, transductive resonance across cultures, rather than a translated meaning? How does art render the world inhabitable — a home?
Screening of The Apartment of Years Gone By at the historic Electric Palace cinema, as part of the Harwich Festival of the Arts 2026, 24th July 2026.
Screening of The Apartment of Years Gone By at the historic Beykoz Kundura factory, as part of the Beyond Borders exhibition for the Inspire Creative Summit 2026, 29–30 May 2025.
Screening of The Apartment of Years Gone By at the 43 Queen Street Digital Forum building, which sits on the historic site of the early-1900s Theatre Royal, as part of the Wrong Biennale ’07 capitArtX: Artificial Lines of Flight, Colchester Embassy, 30 January 2026.
