The List stands at the place where the collective memory fails. The incidents and numbers squeezed in the daily flow of information breathe out and enlarge themselves each time the YAMA screen lights up and fades out. The repetition of words that form the information of each incident requires us to rethink their meaning. What is revealed in this rethinking process is the fact that the abstract, vulnerable, and political numbers branded as general information for the public refer, on the contrary, to the private, subjective, and singular.
YAMA starts its new program with The List. Realized through an intense collaboration among Banu Cennetoğlu, Nihan Somay and Barış Öktem, the 'new' List takes over YAMA as the mediator of the data video that will be completed - without repetition- in 360 hours. The list of dead immigrants on their way to the EU between January 1993 to 14th June 2015 collected from the records of UNITED and The Migrants' Files is constructed in a video format which completes itself in a daily flow making up a 31 day cycle.
