BPA// Exhibition 2024 Half-Light Performance: tangerine

with Göksu Kunak
Performers: Bilgesu Akyürek, Felix Beer, Gözde Güngör, Leo Luchini
December 7, 24, 5-7 p.m.
Location: KW, 3rd floor
No registration necessary

Göksu Kunak is expanding her installation "Gone with the Wind" on the second floor of Half-Light into a walk-in performance. The work deals with the so-called Susurluk car accident of 1996, which had a lasting impact on society and politics in Turkey, as it revealed the existence of a triangular network of organized crime, politics and the state.

Combining elements of Fluxus, storytelling, concert, stand-up comedy, tableau vivant and dance, Kunak and her performers repeatedly rehearse the phenomenon of the accident and the resulting elements of concealment and erasure, revelation and exposure.

The repeated demonstration of the functionality of overtrained bodies heightens this physical tension to moments of anxiety and illustrates the crash as a trigger for revelations and as a moment of decay.

As he moves through the various stations in the room, Kunak draws on the images that this event has generated, from newspaper reports to a soap opera or a movie. These intermingle with abstract notions of the idea of innocence in relation to loss, grief, heartbreak and psychosis.