Hisler Arşivi: İstanbul
Gizem Aksu
What do I feel in this sentient geography?
What do you feel in this sentient geography?
How do we become numb in this sentient geography?
Some feelings are allowed to be felt, expressed, and acted out in the public space, while others are attempted to be constantly manipulated, controlled, or forbidden/hidden. While feelings permeate all areas of our lives and provide rich, multidimensional clues to our everyday lives, they are also fields of power in which the politics of governmentality can be traced. To document the increasing violence, conservatism, and social trauma in Istanbul, I began to archive feelings and show how feelings change and move bodies.
Archive of Feelings: Istanbul was produced with the intention of finding other ways of communicating, moving and living together in a dark and suffocating socio-political and cultural environment. The performance invites the audience to experience, feel and imagine together the potential power of expressing our feelings.
Choreography and Direction: Gizem Aksu
Performance: Suzan Alev, Leyla Postalcıoğlu, Ekin Tunçeli, Zeynep Günsür Yüceil & Bahar Vidinlioğlu
Stage Design: Bengi Günay
Lighting Design: İrfan Varlı
Original Music: Emre Malikler
Additional Music by Ah! Kosmos, dEUS / WITH COURTESY of the ARTISTS.
Mask: Leyla Okan
Direction of Photography: Derin Cankaya
Animation: Valko Chobanov, Nina Paley / WITH COURTESY of the ARTISTS.
Stage and Production Manager: Büşra Tuna
Coproduced by Moda Sahnesi
Supporters
Deniz Akkuş, A Corner in the World, Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası, ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association, Theatre Department of Kadir Has University, Contemporary Dance Department of Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts and Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna.
Special Thanks
Ann Cvetkovich, Gizem Karaosmanoğlu, Aydın Teker, Yasemin Nur, Melissa Ugolini, PURESPACE.
Special Gratitudes to Ann Cvetkovich for her inspiring conception ''archive of feelings''
http://www.anncvetkovich.com