I,The Green Marble:
The (Hi)story Of My Witness And Memory
Cihad Caner’s new work sketches the (hi)story of the green marble platform behind the main podium of the United Nations' headquarters’ assembly hall in New York City. The ensemble of works playfully materializes the memory of the marble slab, which bore witness to multiple incidents, the rise and fall of political leaders, and momentous thresholds of the past seventy years since it was brought from northern Italy in the 50's. What would happen if the green marble platform could talk, what would it say? To this end, Caner created an imaginary protagonist for a mocap CGI video with a non-linear narrative populated by fact-based incidents and fictional ones.