Performance as artist
Hoşgeldin, 2022
The 90s Onstage Exhibition on Salt Beyoğlu
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 – FEBRUARY 12, 2023
Everything Everything Everything is an experimental performance project, programmed by artist Ali Emir Tapan and producer Efe Durmaz, which aims to trace back the rambunctious and daring spirit of the 1990s. Spreading across Salt Beyoğlu and Salt Galata, and featuring Kübra Uzun, Kiki ggNash, Debonair Detsuki, and Akış Ka, the performances are inspired by the transformative potential of music, movement, and language, in pursuit of ways to subvert established modes of representation and hierarchies of power within the art world. The program also explores the economics of identity, the transformation of power relations between the gaze and the bystander, and states of visibility and otherness.
The performance piece “Hoşgeldin” is about my struggle to exist in art institutions as a performance artist, which comes from my personal trans existence in the art world. By colliding my body which is covered in full make-up, with every wall in the space, I leave behind marks. By leaving these marks on the walls, I portray my battle and also turn it into a celebration of my existence in an actual art institution.
Curator of Pera Museum Ulya Soley’s Review of the Programme: https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/articles/ulya-soley-queering-the-white-walls/
