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Eco-friendly Public Art Project
Walk in the Rain is an interactive street art project that aims to create visibility for climate research, statistics and slogans from climate activists. The project provides a platform for audience to confront with the climate change and its impact on our society.
Project organizes group tours that takes place on a specific route. The tour is an opportunity for people to walk around the city, experience the environmental characteristics and surroundings of the region, observe the graffities and engage in discussions on climate activism. The tours only take place during the rainy days when the slogans are visible, creating a unique and memorable experience for the participants. The project aims to create a space for dialogue and empowerment where citizens and climate researchers can come together to express their opinions and ideas on climate change. Walk In The Rain raises awareness about the urgency of the climate crisis, inspires people to take action and provides an example of eco-friendly graffiti art in public spaces.
Diren Demir (Istanbul, 1997) is an interdisciplinary artist and independent curator. Demir’s work seeks transformative solutions to the challenges posed by patriarchal and authoritarian regimes. Demir’s installations and performances frequently deal with revelation and the body-power relationship as a site of conflict. Demir focuses on transformational activism, participatory practices and developing new models of resistance in their artworks. Demir’s work includes queer themes, using their own body to challenge stereotypical gender positions and de-gender memories of place and the city by referring to LGBTIQ+ history in their articles, seminars and workshops. In 2019, their compilation titled “A Night of June: A Biographical Analysis of the Stonewall Revolution” was published. In August 2022, their new poetry and illustration book “Hail to the Fallen” took its place in bookstores. Demir has curated more than 30 guerrilla exhibitions on streets and rural areas, putting the accessibility of art at the forefront, as well as in places such as Akbank Art and Gazhane Museum. Their works and projects were exhibited in many different countries such as Estonia, Turkey, Serbia, Netherlands, Germany, India…