Performance @Eigenheim

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performance

Vocal: Stephan Nolan, Vivien Jester, Josephine Prkno, Gökcen Dilek Acay
Electronics: Stephan Nolan

This Part of the World

How does a person exist? Of course, there are many factors that make it exist. As a social being, human seeks ways of self-expression and existence. Among these forms of expression, we encounter the phenomenon of identity. Biologically and culturally shaped identity is one of the ways of existence of the individual. Starting from Socrates' 'knowing oneself' until Freud, the phenomenon of identity occupies humanity. 

In the global structure we live in, how are we shaped within the concept of identity? Globality enables us to focus on the phenomenon of identity in today's societies. The new perception of identity and the coexistence of different identities necessitate the redefinition of identity in changing conditions. Are we talking about homogeneous or polarizing societies with globalization? This structure offers us a different perception of time and space. Spaces are narrowing and expanding in an instant. In this perspective of perception, we move in a multi-time and multi-spatial structure, on the other hand, national political borders provide us with spatial contractions. With globalism, we are trying to be immobilized in the hegemony of nationalism and political life, while talking about new discoveries of identity.

Mobile Wurzeln deals with cultural identities from a transnational perspective, in both shrinking and expanding space and time. The exhibition evaluates the sense of belonging within the current situation, in insecure areas between the majorities trying to be me with the ideas of 'the other' within us, 'me, the non-other' and 'the existence of the other and the self'. It focuses on the deformation of knowledge and the degradation of identity, with the effort of history to record the other.

The works seek to present numerous viewpoints of a singular story. We invite 4 international artists for the first round of the exhibition at STOCKWERK. In the exhibition; In Gohmert's oil painting, we see his effort to find an abstract life, desiring change, Yoshida's view of the loss of function of language, and with it, the transformation of words that lose their meaning into something else in a poetic way. It also allows us to focus on self-disconnection in the face of the absurdity of national borders separating us in Al-Khadra's work. Prkno helps us to travel with our ears to the diversity of perception, invisible borders, bridges between cultures.

Artists: 
Kathryn Gohmert, Qenji Yoshida, Moawya Al-Khadra, Josephine Prkno

Gökçen Dilek Acay

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