- Correspondance (Shimmer)
“What if shimmering is how you experience time passing? Here and gone, here and gone, here and gone … with an emphasis on the here in the here and gone.” – Deborah Hay
Shed your skin. Compose your body to be invisible. This is a durational choreographic inquiry calling into question notions of edges and boundaries. Through dazzling gestures of shimmer and camouflage, movements of ever-changing co-presences and figures unfold throughout the compound grounds that evoke the slippery nature of “here-ness.”
2023
Performed at and commissioned by Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul, Turkey.
Durational Live Performance
Duration: 3 HoursPerformed together with Aslı Bostancı, Melih Kıraç and Kamola Rashidova.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Serra Akcan © Kulturakademie Tarabya.
Video Images - Correspondance (Surface)
Correspondance (Surface) is a multi-media installation convening a textile architectural scenography, four visual-effects processed moving images played back on life-size (190cm/75inch) upright monitors, sound design and a series of activating live performances. Correspondance (Surface) interweaves embodied and digital choreographies to explore and question the boundaries between physical and virtual bodily spaces.
The four digitally manipulated moving images display life-size silhouettes of dancers who appear on the screen as intangible cinematic figures, whose fugitive movements both resist and elude the demand for recognition, detection, and identification. These “video-sculptures” reconfigure the moving images as corporeal agencies that operate like virtual dancers in the exhibition space.
Surrounding the video-sculptures is a textile installation based on spatial designs of “dazzle camouflage” — employing a variety of fabric panels to intervene into the given spatial structure of the exhibition space. The iridescent, shimmering quality of the fabrics invites viewers to experience the space through the interplay of (dis)appearances and reflections —creating a choreography of (in)visibility by dazzling the correspondences between the four video-sculptures, which occupy the four pillars in the four corners of the exhibition space.
A series of durational live-performances unfold throughout the exhibition, both activating the installation as well as leaking out into the entire museum space. These durational choreographic inquiries equally call into question notions of edges and boundaries through dazzling gestures of shimmer and camouflage — unfolding movements of ever-changing co-presences that evoke the slippery nature of “here-ness.”
2022-23
Exhibited at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main in Germany.
Commissioned by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in cooperation with the Museum Angewandte Kunst, both in Frankfurt/Main in Germany.
Exhibition was generously supported by SAHA, Istanbul; Stiftung Kunstfonds; Neustart Kultur; BBK and Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Multimedia installation and activating live performances convening a large-scale textile architecture made from iridescent fabrics; four VFX-processed, digital moving images played back as seamless loops on life-size (190cm/75inch) upright monitors with sound; and a series of three durational live performances performed across the duration of the exhibition.
VFX: Hugo Guerra
Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli
Sound: Sophia Loizou
Scenography: KAMI BLUSCH
Fabrics: Kvadrat
Dancers in moving images: Murat Adash, Maria Ghoumrassi, J Neve Harrington, Matthias Sperling
Live performances: Co-choreographed by Murat Adash and Tarren Johnson and performed together with Katja Cheraneva and Tümay Kılınçel
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Installation View. Günzel/Rademacher © Museum Angewandte Kunst.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Digital Photograph. Performance Documentation. Image: Silviu Guiman.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Still. Image from digital videos. VFX: Hugo Guerra.
Video Images - Correspondance (Belonging)
Correspondance (Belonging) is an interactive one-to-one performance designed to be encountered between one performer and one audience member at a time. During each thirty-minute performance, bodily acts of movement, speech and sound are employed to guide each audience member through a series of choreographed and improvised elements that explore attention, awareness, sensation and relation as forms of collective embodiment and being-in-space together.
Exploring belonging as a process of co-becoming through reflecting on notions of boundaries and negative space in the context of an affective encounter, Correspondance (Belonging) probes acts of responsiveness and response-ability by establishing an intimate encounter in a relationship to belonging, where belonging is not bound to any specific location but to a system of movement.
Drawing on feminist, queer and diasporic concepts of belonging and relations with others, Correspondance (Belonging) touches on boundaries and borders as zones of contact to re-imagine other ways of being-in-space.
2021
Commissioned by and performed at Mosaic Rooms, London, UK.
A series of one-to-one performances, performed to one audience member at a time.
Eleven consecutive performances a day. Each performance is 30 minutes long.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video still. Performance documentation. Image: David Leroy Thomas.
Video Images - Correspondance (Morphology)
Correspondance (Morphology) is an exercise in moving through thresholds and boundaries of the self. The movement commits to a single gesture – that of morphing – unfolding over time. The potential of morphing allows for the shifting and changing of identity, as well as model an energetic presence at the threshold of self-perception. The act of morphing, as a constellatory, ephemeral coming-to-appearance, evolves in the space of the museum on a moment-by-moment basis, triggered through a collective becoming-with ebbs and flows while occurring through a co-constitutive manner amongst all the present bodies. Together, all elements in space contribute to an entangled process of becoming-with one another. The seemingly simple yet complex choreographic improvisation emerges through continuously moving through rhythms of morphing – creating complex accumulations of different bodily (trans)formations, shapes, orientations, rhythms, velocities, and trajectories. Throughout the motion of the piece, contingent and improvised structures reach in and around the audience, gently shifting and reconfiguring established constellations in space – reorganizing, shape- shifting, boundary-probing the patterns of a potential new becoming. Through experimenting with variable morphologies of co-presence, Correspondance (Morphology) attempts to create an encounter of rethinking (both bodily and psychically) a mutual field of potential relations.
2020
Exhibited as part of the exhibition Akis/Flux at Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
Commissioned by the Marina Abramovic Institute and Sakip Sabanci Museum.
Further support from the Hessische Kulturstiftung, Germany.
Long-durational Live Performance
Duration: 144 Hours (Performed six hours daily, across four consecutive weeks)
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Image: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Canberk Ulusan.
Video Images - Correspondance (Contact)
In Correspondance (Contact), two protean subjects both move through and are moved by their surroundings – an amorphous urban structure resembling mountainous landscapes. An improvisatory dyadic composition, of a somatic camouflage, unfolds between concealment and exposure through bodily acts of melting, expanding, twisting, shaking, collapsing, shading and coloring. Oscillating along the threshold as well as osculating around the edges of self, is where the dyad surfaces, where they touch and are touched by each other; and it is from this porosity where they touch upon their environment. Through an embodied, sensuous correspondence, they perceptibly co-respond to one another by blending into their environment not by becoming invisible, but, rather, through rehearsing the problem of locating oneself, and thus, the problem of location. For to camouflage is precisely the blending of figure and ground, of interiority and exteriority, and thus corporealities and spatialities, and hence, they practice, at the surface of their skin, a chameleonic being-of-the-world. Intermittently, apparitions of bodies of water, light and color crop up and disappear – living materials that co-perform and correspond as they appear on the vibrating interface between surface and depth. Together in interplay, Correspondance (Contact) emblematizes a trans-subjective becoming of animate being, both human and beyond the human, allowing for a shared geometry to emerge.
2019
Produced for 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun, Geneva
Supported by Utopiana, Geneva4K Video – Single channel video projection
Video duration: 24 minutes on loop
Correspondents: Murat Adash & Lucie Eidenbenz
Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli & David Huwiler
Sound design: Alyssa Moxley
Produced by: Utopiana
Video still. Cinematography: David Huwiler.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: David Huwiler.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: David Huwiler.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video Images - Correspondance (Touch)
Correspondance (Touch) unfolds as a polyphonic, entangled constellation between all the present bodies – set amidst a light projection, that, while marking the duration and space of the performance, gradually, like a sudden change of weather, transitions from complete lightness to darkness. The light projection – through its gradual transition over an extended period of time – is itself a co-performer, a living material, whose task it is to not only delineate a space and mark a duration, but to form a threshold space, a diaphanous presence, an ephemeral localization constituting a playing field and boundary where the field of relations themselves become mobile. From here, the choreography touches upon the boundaries between the performers and their audience as a generative space through processes of sensuous correspondence and wit(h)nessing, so that these very boundaries can both be called into question, while at the same time acknowledging their affordances. Correspondance (Touch) employs movement as a relational practice, negotiating individual bodily boundaries, mobilizing them as corporeally co-responsive matter, slipping and leaking into the other as permeable and porous interfaces. In so doing, the boundaries themselves become dynamic and alive. Thus, the choreography unravels as a bodily encounter where one can camouflage and cross oneself into the other like a threshold, while touching and being touched, watching and being watched, moving and being moved, by the other.
2019
Produced for 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun, Geneva
Supported by Utopiana, GenevaCorrespondents: Murat Adash & Lucie Eidenbenz
Light design: Alessandra Domingues
Videography: Jeff Vercasson
Photography: Neige Sanchez
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Neige Sanchez.
Video Images - Similitudes – A Duet
Similitudes – A Duet is an exercise in proximity and distance. The choreography emerges out of the field of relations between the dancer and the wit(h)ness, set against a rhythmic light alternating between lightness and darkness. Through a game-like structure, the dancer invents rules and systems, both choreographed and contingent, predictable and unpredictable, as ways to measure the shared space – calling into question the boundaries of the self. The movement unfolds in a constellatory flash – a sudden, ephemeral coming-to-appearance – testing out the process of mirroring and the capacity to mimic to see how similarities crop up and disappear. Extending movements both out of and back into the body, the dancer measures relationships of alternation, overlap and unison through the threshold of darkness. The immersive hold of darkness, which blurs the boundaries of the bodies in space, evokes a dialectics of seeing, in which subjects become fused for a brief moment, like in a flash. As the rhythmic cycle is repeated, awareness expands. Through organizing and accumulating recognizable structures and shapes, the dancer channels gestures and geometries of resemblance, correspondence, similarity and difference to illuminate a situation.
2018
Performed at Mountain of Art Research, LondonLive Performance
25 Minutes
Performer: Maria Da Luz Ghoumrassi
Cinematography: Ariel Artur
Video still. Performance documentation. Videography: Ariel Artur.
Video still. Performance documentation. Videography: Ariel Artur.
Video still. Performance documentation. Videography: Ariel Artur.
Video still. Performance documentation. Videography: Ariel Artur.
Video still. Performance documentation. Videography: Ariel Artur.
Video Images - One in the Other (Part One)
One in the Other is a choreographic exhibition extending across two interrelated, yet independent, parts: a corresponding moving-image and a live performance. Entitled after a Surrealist game, the inter-independent parts form a mimetic relationship with one another. In both part one and two, a group of eleven performers assemble to create a living environment in space: through bodily acts of mimesis, distinctions between self and other become porous and mobile. Rehearsing the reciprocal interplay between the self and other, inside and outside, the game-like choreographies, both live and on screen open up a tactile experience of intra-subjective co-presence. Part one invokes a ritual of contact and contagion, implying a back and forth movement: understanding of the group involves repeated circular movements between the individual and the group. Part Two further extends those movement patterns into a live situation and relation with their audience through play. As a whole, One in the Other (Part One and Part Two) channel forms of attunement or correspondence that amounts to a kind of contagion as an attempt to challenge notions of boundaries.
2018
Screened as part of How Can Large Mountains enter Small Ice? at Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Supported by Delfina Foundation (London) and SAHA Association (Istanbul).4K Video and installation
Video duration: 12:30 Minutes on loop
Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli
Sound design: Alyssa Moxley
Text: Sarah Wang
Filmed at: Studio Wayne McGregor
Performers: Ioanna Bili, Jilly Connick, Francesca Costa, Roberta Gotti, Ripp Greatbach, Oriana Haddad, Sean Murray, Lorenzo Nocentini, Bakani Pick-Up, Miriam Tsehai and Alice Weber.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Video still. Cinematography: Arturo Bandinelli.
Digital Photograph. Installation view. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Installation view. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Installation view. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Installation view. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Video Images - One in the Other (Part Two)
One in the Other is a choreographic exhibition extending across two interrelated, yet independent, parts: a corresponding moving-image and a live performance. Entitled after a Surrealist game, the inter-independent parts form a mimetic relationship with one another. In both part one and two, a group of eleven performers assemble to create a living environment in space: through bodily acts of mimesis, distinctions between self and other become porous and mobile. Rehearsing the reciprocal interplay between the self and other, inside and outside, the game-like choreographies, both live and on screen open up a tactile experience of intra-subjective co-presence. Part one invokes a ritual of contact and contagion, implying a back and forth movement: understanding of the group involves repeated circular movements between the individual and the group. Part Two further extends those movement patterns into a live situation and relation with their audience through play. As a whole, One in the Other (Part One and Part Two) channel forms of attunement or correspondence that amounts to a kind of contagion as an attempt to challenge notions of boundaries.
2018
Performed as part of How Can Large Mountains enter Small Ice? at Delfina Foundation, London, United Kingdom. Supported by Delfina Foundation (London) and SAHA Association (Istanbul).Live Performance
Duration : 20 Minutes
Performers: Ioanna Bili, Jilly Connick, Francesca Costa, Roberta Gotti, Ripp Greatbach, Oriana Haddad, Sean Murray, Lorenzo Nocentini, Bakani Pick-Up, Miriam Tsehai and Alice Weber.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Tim Bowditch.
Video Images - To the Extent
In To the Extent, a group of performers move between a set of corporeal constellations, establishing fluctuating stages of contact and division amongst each other and their audience. By exercising strategies of dispersion, re-assembly, and reciprocity, the performers build a complex accumulation of gestures and bodily compositions, within which the audience becomes complicit. As bodies in a constant state of transformation, the performers both adapt to and interrupt their surroundings, thereby mapping alternative mechanisms of belonging. Through morphologies of physical arrangements in space, ranging from a wall of living bodies to gestures of alignment, camouflage and disappearance, To the Extent attempts to inquire into the architectural potential of social relations – seeking to uncover the ways we exist in built spaces.
2016
Performed at Alt Art Space, Istanbul, TurkeyLive Performance
Duration: 30 minutes
Performers: Tarcin Celebi, Ilgün Ceylan, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu, Derya Dinc, Eylul Dizdar, Cemrehan Karakaş, Irem Nalca, Gamze Öztürk, Ebru Sargın, Gültuğ Yenidoğan
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Çağlar Kanzık.
Video Images - Industrial Intimacy
Inspired by Dan Graham’s 1975 performance Performer/Audience/Mirror, a group of six performers re-imagine his seminal work by transforming a constructed office space into a self-reflexive stage. Utilizing body language as the primary means of communication, the performers become agents in establishing a temporary social system: through rule-based game systems, structures of improvisation and play, Industrial Intimacy inquires into the potential of an embodied event, probing what bodies can do.
2016
Performed at Cabaret Voltaire as part of Manifesta Biennial, Zurich, SwitzerlandLive Performance
Duration: 50 minutes
Performers: Patricija Bronic, Noemi Clerc, Désirée Myriam Gnaba, Alice Joerg, Andreea Pintece and Ilona Stutz
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Don Koko.
Video Images - The Adoption
In choreographing fluctuations between movement and stillness, The Adoption produces polarized states of chaos and order. Further complicating this dichotomy is a perpetual reversal of roles. The audience become performers amongst the erratic movement, and return to spectatorship in moments of stillness. Here, the orderly construct of art-viewing is done away with and the audience becomes complicit in the work – they are within it, rather than outsiders looking in.
2015
Performed as part of the exhibition Primary Care at Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, United StatesLive Performance in collaboration with Stephen Kwok
Duration: 20 minutes
Performers: Jennifer McCool, Maggie Harrington, Jessie Winslow, Joseph Cappabianca, Pia Cruzalegui, Yannan Huang, Meghan Dowd, Mayra Rodriguez, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki and Paula Nacif - Stare
By means of changing physical arrangements along a set of stairs, a group of fifteen performers establish micro choreographies amongst visitors traversing two levels of an art fair. Through establishing changing viewing positions and counter-perspectives, the performers establish with their gaze shifting modes of including themselves into, and excluding themselves away from, the visual sphere. As a spatial scenario, Stare investigates the complex spatial and social relations between objects, bodies, and elements of the built space and probes how physical constellations of stillness can initiate different ways of movement through these kinds of spaces.
Performers: Katie Adams, Lisa Bloom, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Tyler Centanni, Robin Chen, Vicki Chen, Annie Cottrell, Emily Fenn, Laurel Foglia, Maggie Harrington, Susanna Hostetter, Yannan Huang, Jenny Kim, Helena Martinez, Alyssa Moxley, Jeremy Pauly, Caitlin Peterson, Matt Ryan, Christine Shallenberg, Patrick Segura, Elizabeth Smarz, Maryam Taghavi, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Keijaun Thomas, Suzanne Torres, Jake Vogds, Ronda Wheatly, Chen Chen Yu, among others.
2014
Performed at EXPO Chicago – The international exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art, United StatesLive Performance
Duration: 30 minutes (in intervals)
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Sania Kruse.
- Body Building
In Body Building a group of seventeen performers assemble next to each other, shoulder on shoulder, establishing a second wall around the margin of a square room. Occupying the entire dimension of the room from wall to wall except a small opening, their gaze is directed towards the empty space. Upon entering, the spectators – through their own bodily compositions in space – intentionally or unintentionally, start to perform as well. Through shifting dichotomies of simultaneous movement and stillness, of watching and being watched, Body Building creates a face-to-face encounter and a body-to-body situation to test out symmetries and asymmetries of co-presence.
Performers: Katie Adams, Naama Arad, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Claire Bauman, Bow-Ty, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Chanhee Choi, Annie Cottrell, Jenn Cooper, Elise Cowin, Angharad Davies, Emily Fenn, Laurel Foglia, Alessandra Gomez, Tia Greer, Oriana Haddad, Stevie Hanley, Maggie Harrington, Brittni Hessler, Wei Hsinyen, Josh Hoglund, Yannan Huang, Dana Heeyun Jang, Jenny Kim, Francis Kondorf, Stephen Kwok, Alyssa Moxley, George William Price, Patrick Quilao, Rachel Ramirez, Charles Rice, Erica Ricketts, Matt Ryan, Michal Samama, Christine Shallenberg, Erin Smego, Olive Stefanski, Lisa Stertz, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Keijaun Thomas, McKenzie Thompson, Hannah Verrill, Caz Wallace, Caleb Yono, among others.
2014
Performed at Risk: Art and Social Practice (curated by Tricia Van Eck) at 6018 North, Chicago, United StatesLive Performance
Duration: 30 minutes (in intervals across exhibition duration)
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Kelsey Lindsey.
Video Images - Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point is a choreography for five performers. Moving on demarcated lines, each performer holds a glass vessel. Each vessel contains a sound device that amplifies one voice. Each voice maps and speaks from the same script at different speed. Together the five voices create a chorus building up in space as the movement unfolds – until each voice is drowned once the movement approaches its limit.
2014
Links Hall, Chicago, United StatesLive Performance
Sound, custom speakers, glass vessels
Duration: 11 minutes
Performers: Lisa Stertz, Erica Ricketts, Tia Greer, Jennifer McCool and Lucas Black
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Emerson.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Emerson.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Emerson.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Emerson.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Emerson.
Video Images - Sightseeing
A series of performances and public interventions inquiring into relationships of sight and site.
2013
1st Performance: Itinerants – we stir our way onwards (mixing as we go)- in collaboration with Hannah Verrill for EdgeUP Festival (curated by Tricia Van Eck), Chicago, United States2nd Performance: Sightseeing, performance as part of group show Roads Scholar (curated by New Capital), Iceberg Projects, Chicago, United States
Live Performance and Public Interventions
Performers: Stephanie Acosta, Murat Adash, Keijaun Thomas, McKenzie Thompson and Hannah Verrill
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Erin Teresa Toale.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Erin Teresa Toale.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Erin Teresa Toale.
Digital Photograph. Performance documentation. Photo: Erin Teresa Toale.
- Place is a Pause in Movement
A group of six performers sweep through the Great Hall of the Chicago Union station. Walking in the pattern of a vanishing point, they slowly move ahead. As an act of rehearsal they shift, migrate and re-arrange collectively. With each pause between their steps they create a new constellation in space – time becomes spatialized and mobilized at once. Place is a Pause in Movement establishes a choreography of spatial and durational organization in relationship to belonging, where belonging is not bound to any specific location but to a system of movement.
2013
Chicago Union Station, US
Exhibited at Iceberg Projects, ChicagoHD Video
Single channel video
Duration: 13 minutes
Videography: Gonzalo Escobar Mora & Casey Puccini
Performers: Hannah Verrill, Stephen Kwok, Elise Cowin, Marina Miliou-Theocharaki, Kevin Barrett, McKenzie Thompson - Vertical Resistance
2012
Digital Photographs
Dimensions in print: 24″ x 16″ / 60cm x 40cmExhibited at Motorenhalle Dresden, Germany and Surp Yerrortutyun Kilisesi, Istanbul, Turkey
Digital Photograph. Courtesy Murat Adash.
Digital Photograph. Courtesy Murat Adash.
Digital Photograph. Courtesy Murat Adash.
Digital Photograph. Courtesy Murat Adash.
- Vessels of Infinite Geometries
2012
Swell Gallery, San Francisco, USPerformance Installation in Three Acts
Ellipsoidal lights, parabolic speaker, paper, chalk, triangle, sound, live performances
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Mido Lee.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
The New Normal (3rd Iteration in Tourinnes-la-Grosse)
A project co-organized with Hiba Farhat
As seemingly distant and unlike things are remarkably linked into one another, the new rapidly evolves resembling the familiar as the familiar seems more and more ambiguous. What is most normal is also most strange and horrific. Although these propositions may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they might as well be mutually constitutive.
In response to the current social order that has implanted itself through recent global events into the new normal reality – the participants in the exhibition will critically investigate, document, identify, etc. what is the abnormal that has become commonplace. The New Normal invited contributions from around 200 international artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, writers, scholars, thinkers and individuals from a variety of other disciplines to each create a one-page paper document, which will be on view during the exhibitions.
Through drawings, sketches, notes, text, manifestos, scripts, recipes, maps, scores among other formats, this show proposes a revision and re-imagining of some of the narratives of the everyday, from an environmental, economic, social and creative perspective.
Complete list of participants:
Mohamed Abdelkarim, Stephanie Acosta, Yesim Akdeniz, Karam Al Hamad, Mohamed Al Mufti, Hiba Ali, Ayad Almissouri, Tomer Aluf, Einat Amir, Ash Aravena, Rajee Aryal, James Gregory Atkinson, David Ayala-Alfonso, Kendall Martin Babl, Joëlle Bacchetta, Stephanie Bailey, Noah Barker, Daniel Barroca, Keren Benbenisty, Jeremy Bessoff, Blitz Theatre Group, Irina Botea, Halida Boughriet, Fiona Bryson, Jon Cates, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Fares Chalabi, Musquiqui Chihying, Youngbin Choi, Christos Chrissopoulos, Eric D. Clark, Louisa Clement, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks, Laura Cooper, Maja Čule, Chelsea Culprit, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gina D’Orio, Angharad Davies, Marlin de Haan, Divya Dhar, Maurin Dietrich, Distruktur, Anastasia Douka, Sofia Duchovny, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Ambra Pittoni & Paul-Flavian Enriquez-Sarano, Elif Erkan, Assaf Evron, Guy Eytan, Hannah Feldman, Karin Ferrari, Francesca Fini, Born in Flamez, Arianne Foks, Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London), Holly Fowler, Anastasia Freygang, Eric Bell & Kristoffer Frick, Kevin B Lee & Chloé Galibert-Lainé, Hadia Gana, Rainer Ganahl, Mohamed A. Gawad, Leyla Gediz, Rami George, Ramy Ghanem, Ingo Giezendanner (GRRR), Ian Giles, Mohamed Gohar, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Alireza Goudarzi, Jared Gradinger, Katya Grokhovsky, Nazli Gurlek, Gordon Hall, Hanayo, Claudia Hart, Gloria Hasnay, Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Alisa Heil, David Helbich, Marietta Auras & Anja Henckel, Kurt Hentschlager, Ly Hoang Ly, Etab Hrieb, Wei Hsinyen, Amal Issa, Khaled Jarrar, Jane Jerardi, Lara Kamhi, Areej Kaoud, Mine Kaplangı, Elana Katz, Helene Kazan, Sami Khatib, Amahl Raphaël Khouri, Jinjoo Kim, Raoul Klooker, Juljan Krause, Margaret Krawecka, Cara Krebs, Göksu Kunak, Stephen Kwok, Mehdi-George Lahlou, Lindsay Lawson, Dani Leder, Tómas Lemarquis, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Jennifer Locke, Melissa Logan, Ghassan Maasri, Heather MacKenzie, Louis Mallozzi, Markues, Fabian Marti, Xavier Mazzarol, Orr Menirom, Eduardo Menz, Ahmad Mhidi, Nadine Milde, Zoë Claire Miller, Lin Mingyan, Hani Moustafa, Marlie Mul, Aya Nakamura, Sadaf H Nava, Nile Sunset Annex, Johannes E. Nowak, Kira O’Reilly, Julie Oh, Roger Outa, Chantal Partamian, Mary Patten, Manuel Pelmus, Alexis Blair Penney, Claire Pentecost, Mario Pfeifer, Rivers Plasketes, Natasha Pradhan, Kinana Qaddour, Anahita Razmi, Elliot J. Reichert, Wissam Saade, Walid Sadek, Mitsu Salmon, Michal Samama, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Wieland Schoenfelder, Chloe Seibert, Aram Han Sifuentes, Hayley Silverman, Blunt x Skensved, Alex Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Beatrice Steimer, Antoinette Suiter, Larin Sullivan, Frederika Tevebring, Keijaun Thomas, Robert Hotchkiss Thomson, Jan Tichy, Oxana Timofeeva, Petros Touloudis, Devdutt Trivedi, Colleen Tuite, Masha Tupitsyn, Tricia Van Eck, Amanda VanValkenburg, Mark Van Yetter, Voin de Voin, Mark Von Shlegell, Calum Walter, Sama Waly, Arlene Wandera, Sarah Wang, Mikka Wellner, Jasmin Werner, Christoph Westermeier, Olav Westphalen, Yaloo, Nine Yamamoto-Masson, Zhiyuan Yang, Atalay Yavuz, Jiyoung Yoon, Mi You, Lena Youkhana, Chen Chen Yu, Snow Yunxue Fu, Bahar Yürükoğlu, Tobias Zielony, Pablo Zuleta Zahr.
Organized by Murat Adash and Hiba Farhat, the third iteration of The New Normal took place as part of the exhibition À gorge sèche, après la traversée curated by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou in Tourinnes-la-Grosse (Belgium) between November 4 – 25, 2017. Live performances took place all day on November 4th.
November 4-25, 2017
Across the town of Tourinnes-La-Grosse.
In cooperation with Fêtes de la Saint-Martin in Tourinnes-la-Grosse (Belgium) and curated by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Performance documentation. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
The New Normal (2nd Iteration in Istanbul)
A project co-organized with Hiba Farhat
As seemingly distant and unlike things are remarkably linked into one another, the new rapidly evolves resembling the familiar as the familiar seems more and more ambiguous. What is most normal is also most strange and horrific. Although these propositions may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they might as well be mutually constitutive.
In response to the current social order that has implanted itself through recent global events into the new normal reality – the participants in the exhibition will critically investigate, document, identify, etc. what is the abnormal that has become commonplace. The New Normal invited contributions from around 200 international artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, writers, scholars, thinkers and individuals from a variety of other disciplines to each create a one-page paper document, which will be on view during the exhibitions.
Through drawings, sketches, notes, text, manifestos, scripts, recipes, maps, scores among other formats, this show proposes a revision and re-imagining of some of the narratives of the everyday, from an environmental, economic, social and creative perspective.
Complete list of participants:
Mohamed Abdelkarim, Stephanie Acosta, Yesim Akdeniz, Karam Al Hamad, Mohamed Al Mufti, Hiba Ali, Ayad Almissouri, Tomer Aluf, Einat Amir, Ash Aravena, Rajee Aryal, James Gregory Atkinson, David Ayala-Alfonso, Kendall Martin Babl, Joëlle Bacchetta, Stephanie Bailey, Noah Barker, Daniel Barroca, Keren Benbenisty, Jeremy Bessoff, Blitz Theatre Group, Irina Botea, Halida Boughriet, Fiona Bryson, Jon Cates, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Fares Chalabi, Musquiqui Chihying, Youngbin Choi, Christos Chrissopoulos, Eric D. Clark, Louisa Clement, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks, Laura Cooper, Maja Čule, Chelsea Culprit, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gina D’Orio, Angharad Davies, Marlin de Haan, Divya Dhar, Maurin Dietrich, Distruktur, Anastasia Douka, Sofia Duchovny, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Ambra Pittoni & Paul-Flavian Enriquez-Sarano, Elif Erkan, Assaf Evron, Guy Eytan, Hannah Feldman, Karin Ferrari, Francesca Fini, Born in Flamez, Arianne Foks, Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London), Holly Fowler, Anastasia Freygang, Eric Bell & Kristoffer Frick, Kevin B Lee & Chloé Galibert-Lainé, Hadia Gana, Rainer Ganahl, Mohamed A. Gawad, Leyla Gediz, Rami George, Ramy Ghanem, Ingo Giezendanner (GRRR), Ian Giles, Mohamed Gohar, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Alireza Goudarzi, Jared Gradinger, Katya Grokhovsky, Nazli Gurlek, Gordon Hall, Hanayo, Claudia Hart, Gloria Hasnay, Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Alisa Heil, David Helbich, Marietta Auras & Anja Henckel, Kurt Hentschlager, Ly Hoang Ly, Etab Hrieb, Wei Hsinyen, Amal Issa, Khaled Jarrar, Jane Jerardi, Lara Kamhi, Areej Kaoud, Mine Kaplangı, Elana Katz, Helene Kazan, Sami Khatib, Amahl Raphaël Khouri, Jinjoo Kim, Raoul Klooker, Juljan Krause, Margaret Krawecka, Cara Krebs, Göksu Kunak, Stephen Kwok, Mehdi-George Lahlou, Lindsay Lawson, Dani Leder, Tómas Lemarquis, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Jennifer Locke, Melissa Logan, Ghassan Maasri, Heather MacKenzie, Louis Mallozzi, Markues, Fabian Marti, Xavier Mazzarol, Orr Menirom, Eduardo Menz, Ahmad Mhidi, Nadine Milde, Zoë Claire Miller, Lin Mingyan, Hani Moustafa, Marlie Mul, Aya Nakamura, Sadaf H Nava, Nile Sunset Annex, Johannes E. Nowak, Kira O’Reilly, Julie Oh, Roger Outa, Chantal Partamian, Mary Patten, Manuel Pelmus, Alexis Blair Penney, Claire Pentecost, Mario Pfeifer, Rivers Plasketes, Natasha Pradhan, Kinana Qaddour, Anahita Razmi, Elliot J. Reichert, Wissam Saade, Walid Sadek, Mitsu Salmon, Michal Samama, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Wieland Schoenfelder, Chloe Seibert, Aram Han Sifuentes, Hayley Silverman, Blunt x Skensved, Alex Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Beatrice Steimer, Antoinette Suiter, Larin Sullivan, Frederika Tevebring, Keijaun Thomas, Robert Hotchkiss Thomson, Jan Tichy, Oxana Timofeeva, Petros Touloudis, Devdutt Trivedi, Colleen Tuite, Masha Tupitsyn, Tricia Van Eck, Amanda VanValkenburg, Mark Van Yetter, Voin de Voin, Mark Von Shlegell, Calum Walter, Sama Waly, Arlene Wandera, Sarah Wang, Mikka Wellner, Jasmin Werner, Christoph Westermeier, Olav Westphalen, Yaloo, Nine Yamamoto-Masson, Zhiyuan Yang, Atalay Yavuz, Jiyoung Yoon, Mi You, Lena Youkhana, Chen Chen Yu, Snow Yunxue Fu, Bahar Yürükoğlu, Tobias Zielony, Pablo Zuleta Zahr.
Organized by Murat Adash and Hiba Farhat, the second iteration of The New Normal took place at both Supa Salon and SALT in Istanbul (Turkey) between May 5-7, 2017. In addition to the exhibition, live performances and screenings, the second iteration of The New Normal also hosted talks by choreographer Mehmet Sander on Action Architecture and astrophysicist Dr. Emrah Kalemci on Cubesats in addition to a movement workshop devised by artist and curator Nazlı Gürlek and led by contemporary dancer and choreographer Gonca Gümüşayak.
May 5-7, 2017
Supa Salon (main exhibition, performances, talks and workshops) & SALT (screenings), Istanbul, Turkey.
In cooperation with Supa Salon, SALT and the Hessische Kulturstiftung.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Zhang Wei.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
Video still. Courtesy of the artists.
The New Normal (1st Iteration in Beirut)
A project co-organized with Hiba Farhat
As seemingly distant and unlike things are remarkably linked into one another, the new rapidly evolves resembling the familiar as the familiar seems more and more ambiguous. What is most normal is also most strange and horrific. Although these propositions may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they might as well be mutually constitutive.
In response to the current social order that has implanted itself through recent global events into the new normal reality – the participants in the exhibition will critically investigate, document, identify, etc. what is the abnormal that has become commonplace. The New Normal invited contributions from around 200 international artists, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, writers, scholars, thinkers and individuals from a variety of other disciplines to each create a one-page paper document, which will be on view during the exhibitions.
Through drawings, sketches, notes, text, manifestos, scripts, recipes, maps, scores among other formats, this show proposes a revision and re-imagining of some of the narratives of the everyday, from an environmental, economic, social and creative perspective.
Complete list of participants:
Mohamed Abdelkarim, Stephanie Acosta, Yesim Akdeniz, Karam Al Hamad, Mohamed Al Mufti, Hiba Ali, Ayad Almissouri, Tomer Aluf, Einat Amir, Ash Aravena, Rajee Aryal, James Gregory Atkinson, David Ayala-Alfonso, Kendall Martin Babl, Joëlle Bacchetta, Stephanie Bailey, Noah Barker, Daniel Barroca, Keren Benbenisty, Jeremy Bessoff, Blitz Theatre Group, Irina Botea, Halida Boughriet, Fiona Bryson, Jon Cates, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Fares Chalabi, Musquiqui Chihying, Youngbin Choi, Christos Chrissopoulos, Eric D. Clark, Louisa Clement, Tarren Johnson & Joel Cocks, Laura Cooper, Maja Čule, Chelsea Culprit, Zuzanna Czebatul, Gina D’Orio, Angharad Davies, Marlin de Haan, Divya Dhar, Maurin Dietrich, Distruktur, Anastasia Douka, Sofia Duchovny, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Ambra Pittoni & Paul-Flavian Enriquez-Sarano, Elif Erkan, Assaf Evron, Guy Eytan, Hannah Feldman, Karin Ferrari, Francesca Fini, Born in Flamez, Arianne Foks, Forensic Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London), Holly Fowler, Anastasia Freygang, Eric Bell & Kristoffer Frick, Kevin B Lee & Chloé Galibert-Lainé, Hadia Gana, Rainer Ganahl, Mohamed A. Gawad, Leyla Gediz, Rami George, Ramy Ghanem, Ingo Giezendanner (GRRR), Ian Giles, Mohamed Gohar, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Alireza Goudarzi, Jared Gradinger, Katya Grokhovsky, Nazli Gurlek, Gordon Hall, Hanayo, Claudia Hart, Gloria Hasnay, Dafna Maimon & Ethan Hayes-Chute, Alisa Heil, David Helbich, Marietta Auras & Anja Henckel, Kurt Hentschlager, Ly Hoang Ly, Etab Hrieb, Wei Hsinyen, Amal Issa, Khaled Jarrar, Jane Jerardi, Lara Kamhi, Areej Kaoud, Mine Kaplangı, Elana Katz, Helene Kazan, Sami Khatib, Amahl Raphaël Khouri, Jinjoo Kim, Raoul Klooker, Juljan Krause, Margaret Krawecka, Cara Krebs, Göksu Kunak, Stephen Kwok, Mehdi-George Lahlou, Lindsay Lawson, Dani Leder, Tómas Lemarquis, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Jennifer Locke, Melissa Logan, Ghassan Maasri, Heather MacKenzie, Louis Mallozzi, Markues, Fabian Marti, Xavier Mazzarol, Orr Menirom, Eduardo Menz, Ahmad Mhidi, Nadine Milde, Zoë Claire Miller, Lin Mingyan, Hani Moustafa, Marlie Mul, Aya Nakamura, Sadaf H Nava, Nile Sunset Annex, Johannes E. Nowak, Kira O’Reilly, Julie Oh, Roger Outa, Chantal Partamian, Mary Patten, Manuel Pelmus, Alexis Blair Penney, Claire Pentecost, Mario Pfeifer, Rivers Plasketes, Natasha Pradhan, Kinana Qaddour, Anahita Razmi, Elliot J. Reichert, Wissam Saade, Walid Sadek, Mitsu Salmon, Michal Samama, Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Wieland Schoenfelder, Chloe Seibert, Aram Han Sifuentes, Hayley Silverman, Blunt x Skensved, Alex Smith, Sheida Soleimani, Beatrice Steimer, Antoinette Suiter, Larin Sullivan, Frederika Tevebring, Keijaun Thomas, Robert Hotchkiss Thomson, Jan Tichy, Oxana Timofeeva, Petros Touloudis, Devdutt Trivedi, Colleen Tuite, Masha Tupitsyn, Tricia Van Eck, Amanda VanValkenburg, Mark Van Yetter, Voin de Voin, Mark Von Shlegell, Calum Walter, Sama Waly, Arlene Wandera, Sarah Wang, Mikka Wellner, Jasmin Werner, Christoph Westermeier, Olav Westphalen, Yaloo, Nine Yamamoto-Masson, Zhiyuan Yang, Atalay Yavuz, Jiyoung Yoon, Mi You, Lena Youkhana, Chen Chen Yu, Snow Yunxue Fu, Bahar Yürükoğlu, Tobias Zielony, Pablo Zuleta Zahr.
Organized by Murat Adash and Hiba Farhat, the first iteration of The New Normal took place at both The Hangar (UMAM D&R) and Dawawine in Beirut (Lebanon) between March 10-12, 2017.
March 10-12, 2017
The Hangar – UMAM D&R (main exhibition & performances) & Dawawine (talks & screenings), Beirut, Lebanon.
In cooperation with The Hangar – UMAM D&R, Dawawine and the European Cultural Foundation.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Digital Photograph. Exhibition view. Photo: Anastasia Muna.
Cum-Ex
An exhibition curated with Kunsthalle Freeport
Object Execution. Drops of high density push through the pores to the skin‘s surface. All that is solid melts into air while the will to exhaustion covers the epidermis with sheer webs of crystal salt. Don’t worry my dear. Supplies will be provided. We had to make room for the dripping dividends. Entanglement as climax. The bodycare looks after the molded alloys and the cracked interstices. It glues the gearbox with glandular secretion and luscious wax. Relationships enclosed in draped honeycombs. Stockpile, skim, apply, lubricate. Persisting against the strain-direction. We inscribe ourselves into the manufactured webbings, in which the things resonate, exhaust, expose themselves in real time. Boundary objects, soaked and semipermeable. The batch spits out eddy currents, steady structures against the torpor.
Text by Anna Gien
Participating artists:
Murat Adash, Naama Arad, Peppi Bottrop, Marco Bruzzone, Zuzanna Czebatul, Sofia Duchovny, Elif Erkan, Octavio Garabello, Alisa Heil, Real Madrid, Zoe Claire Miller, Maximilian Schmoetzer, Camilla Steinum.
June 9 – July 7, 2017
Ausstellungsraum der IG Metall, Berlin, Germany
Co-organized with Kunsthalle Freeport.
http://kunsthallefreeport.net
- Choreographic Devices 2025 at ICA London
January 19th, 12:30-9:00pm:
Please join us for another iteration of Choreographic Devices taking place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Co-organized by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, Edgar Schmitz and Sara Sassanelli, Choreographic Devices is an annual event series that activates the “choreographic” as a methodology for trans-disciplinary forms of inquiry and rehearsal. Bringing together contributors from across an expanded ecology of practices, this multi-format forum speculates on and with choreographic arrangements and their complex modes of co-production. Choreographic Devices tests how material assemblages, organisational forms, and modes of being alongside each other might be choreographed otherwise.
Contributors to the fourth iteration include Murat Adash, Anjana Bala, jee chan, Ofri Cnaani, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ella Finer, keyon gaskin, Jelena Golubović, Martin Hargreaves, Raimundas Malasauskas, Arjuna Neuman, Nissa Nishikawa, Bilawa Ade Respati, Heidi Rustgaard, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, SERAFINE1369, Esther Siddiquie, Vaida Stepanovaité and Bartosz Zurowski.
- Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius
August 3, 2024 between 12:30-9pm:
Choreographic Devices is returning, this time as part of the ten-day sound and performance programme “Days of Re-entry” at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (Lithuania). Co-organized together with Ofri Cnaani, Edgar Schmitz and Sara Sassanelli, this new iteration includes contributions by Murat Adash, Eglė Budvytytė, OMSK Social Club, Ofri Cnaani, keyon gaskin, Paveldo Institutas, Tarren Johnson, Agnė Jokšė, Michael Kitchin, Raimundas Malašauskas, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, SERAFINE1369, Esther Siddiquie, Himali Singh Soin, Eve Stainton, Vaida Stepanovaitė, and Protektorama toxica (fed and cared for by JP Raether).
- Open House at Headlands
July 21, 2024 between 12-5pm:
Screening two moving images in the Rodeo Room, as well as exhibiting a video sculpture in the studio as part of the Open House exhibition at the Headlands Center for the Arts. - Headlands Center for the Arts
July 15 – August 31, 2024:
I’ll be an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts just north of San Francisco in the Marin Headlands for six weeks in July and August. - Performance at Neue Nationalgalerie
June 13, 2024, all day event:
Performing at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin as part of the happening “We Are In This Together”—organized by Kieran Behan and summoned as part of the collective Cultivation. - Research & Desire at Haus am Waldsee
June 1st, 2024, 6-10pm:
Speaking and screening as part of the conference on “Research & Desire” at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin—organized by the Society for Artistic Research in Germany (gkfd). I am part of a panel with psychoanalyst Nadine Hartmann and writer Anna Gien, moderated by Dr. Kathrin Busch. - Berlin Artistic Research Programme
Happy to announce that I was selected a fellow as part of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme for the years 2024 and 2025 together with Bini Adamczak, Jessica Ekomane, Daniel Falb, Holly Herndon, Anton Kats, Dan Lie, Henrike Naumann, İz Öztat, Marta Popivoda, Anta Helena Recke, Konstanze Schmitt and Luise Schröder. My project “Dazzling Encounters: Camouflage and the Choreography of Queer Alterity” brings together minoritarian and marginalized bodies of knowledge in combining queer studies and indigenous Amazonian cosmologies in novel ways.
- New Performance at Istituto Svizzero, Milan
December 15th, 2023 from 6:30-11pm:
Presenting my new performance Correspondance (Threshold) as part of the SOL INVICTUS: Sounds and performances for the winter solstice curated by Gioia Dal Molin as part of Istituto Svizzero’s performance program at the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan.
- PhD at Goldsmiths
November 17th, 2023:
Officially and successfully completed my five-year long, practice-based Ph.D. project without corrections entitled “Edges of Bodies: Camouflage, Correspondence and the Choreography of Alterity” in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. A short abstract of the research project can be found here.
- Correspondance (Shimmer) in Istanbul
September 16th, 2023 from 5-8pm:
Performing my three-hour long durational live performance entitled Correspondance (Shimmer) as part of the 2023 Summer Festival at Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul. This new choreographic work is performed together with dancers Aslı Bostancı, Melih Kıraç and Kamola Rashidova.
- Choreographic Devices 2023 at ICA London
June 17th, 2023 from 12-9pm:
Co-organizing another iteration of Choreographic Devices—this time an interim, smaller scale one-day event taking place again at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
With contributions by: Murat Adash, Charlie Ashwell, Eglė Budvytytė, Elly Clarke, Ofri Cnaani, keyon gaskin, Adrian Heathfield, Raimundas Malasauskas, SERAFINE1369, Protektorama toxica, Emily Rosamond, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, and Himali Singh Soin.
In addition to co-organizing the entire event, I am also hosting a session entitled alterity, alterity—featuring live performances by myself and Protektorama toxica (fed and cared for by JP Raether), as well as prerecorded contributions by Eglė Budvytytė and Himali Singh Soin.
- Dance Lab Project 2023 in Macau
March 10-12th, as well as 16th, 2023:
Teaching a four-day movement workshop entitled “Where do I begin, and where do I end?” at this year’s Dance Lab Project in Macau (China). Combining readings, movement inquiries and writing exercises, this workshop focuses on the phenomenon of mimicry to explore notions of boundaries and thresholds: between bodies and their spatial surroundings, inside and outside, and writing and dancing.
- Residency at Kulturakademie Tarabya
I was selected as an artist-in-residence at the Kulturakademie Tarabya (Goethe-Institut) in Istanbul, where I’ll be working on a project between February and May 2023.
- The Voices of A Tempest
07 Dec 2022 – 18 Mar 2023:
My film One in the Other (Part One) is being screened as part of the group exhibition The Voices of A Tempest at Somerset House in London, curated by A—Z (Anne Duffau). - Correspondance (Surface) at MAK
8 October 2022 – 15 January 2023:
My new multi-media installation Correspondance (Surface) has been commissioned for the three-person exhibition Contact Zones at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main. The exhibition is curated by Eike Walkenhorst in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. - Artist in Residence at Studio Voltaire
I’ll be artist-in-residence at Studio Voltaire in London between 6 June 2022—16 September 2022, working towards an upcoming museum exhibition in Germany.
- Choreographic Devices at ICA London
June 10-12, 2022:
Co-organizing Choreographic Devices, a three-day choreographic symposium taking place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.Choreographic Devices assembles contributors operating across multiple disciplinary boundaries, including Murat Adash (artist), Edwina Ashton (artist), D. Graham Burnett (teacher, writer, interdisciplinary maker), Ofri Cnaani (artist), Augusto Corrieri (artist), Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin + Bojana Janković) (artists), Lou Forster (art historian, curator), keyon gaskin (artist), Martin Hargreaves (dramaturg, writer, performer), Vlatka Horvat (artist), Lenio Kaklea (choreographer, dancer, writer), Sarah Keenan (writer, theorist), André Lepecki (performance studies theorist, curator), Jason Edward Lewis (digital media theorist, poet, software designer), Raimundas Malasauskas (silk painter), Tavi Meraud (artist), Samaneh Moafi (architect, investigator), Rebecca Moss (artist), Harun Morrison (artist, writer), Sandra Noeth (body theorist, curator), Lara Pawson (writer), Daniela Perazzo (dance and performance theorist), Stamatia Portanova (theorist), Filipa Ramos (writer, curator), Irit Rogoff (educator, theorist), Florian Roithmayr (artist), Georgia Sagri (artist), Edgar Schmitz (artist), SERAFINE1369 (artist), Noémie Solomon (theorist, curator), Matthias Sperling (artist, choreographer, performer), Starhawk (author, permaculture designer, teacher, activist), Soap Bubble (complex mathematical problem), and Arkadi Zaides (choreographer).
- Artist-in-Resident at Rupert
During the months of April and May 2022, I’ll be artist-in-residence at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Group show at San Mei Gallery
March 25 – 27, 2022:
Have work on display as part of the group show entitled The Healing Collective:
The Spring Gatheringat San Mei Gallery in London, UK. - Screening at Cinema Beltrade Milan
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened at Cinema Beltrade in Milan on October 27th, 2021 as part of the INTĭM ~ US screening programme.
- Workshop: Altered States of Corporeality
I am holding a reading session Sept 27th, 2021 between 6-8pm (UK time), reading Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia by Roger Caillois, followed by a movement workshop that I am leading the next morning Sept 28th, 2021 between 10am-12pm (UK time). The workshop is organized by artists Hollie Miller and Hannah Buckley and the project is supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Wainsgate Dances and Studio 307.
- Artist-in-Resident at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
I’ll be resident artist as part of the INHABIT residency programme at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for three months between September – November 2021. My artistic research project “The Self in Camouflage: Altered States of Corporeality” will develop a novel conception of “camouflage” as a field of research and choreographic inquiry. Beyond the idea of animal or insect mimicry, I will rethink camouflage as a spatial act, a process through which the self is negotiated in and through space and which – like choreography – involves a transformation of the embodied self in relation to an environment.
- Festival at Kunsthalle Kohta
August 12 – October 10, 2021:
Contributed a palm-sized artwork in the form of an ancient rock to the First International Festival of Manuports taking place at Kunsthalle Kohta in Helsinki, Finland. - Interview with Art Unlimited
I was interviewed by Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Özel for Art Unlimited about my work Correspondance (Morphology) and my recent collaboration with the Marina Abramovic Institute. The interview is in Turkish, an English translation is available upon request.
- Group exhibition A Spirit of Disruption
March 19 – July 3rd, 2021:
My work is included in the group exhibition A Spirit of Disruption at the Walter and McBean Galleries in San Francisco, United States. - Workshop at Chelsea College of Art
February 1st, 2020 between 1-4pm:
Held a workshop on somatic movement and improvised ritual for MFA students at the Chelsea College of Art as part of their international festival Heterotopia.In this workshop, participants will be guided through somatic inquiry and improvised ritual to set in motion individual and collaborative world-making processes: utilizing presence, contemplation, awareness, imagination and altered states of being to bring forth both personal as well as collective instances of insight, recognition, perspective and transformation. Through a set of performative exercises, participants will move into their senses by practicing grounding, self-observation and attention to one’s surroundings. By attuning to the subtle, felt, invisible and imaginary space within, participants will have the opportunity to share and carry outwards an intention for individual or collective healing.
- Screening at San Francisco Art Institute
January 23rd, 2020:
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened between 7pm-8:30pm on January 23rd as part of the Three Turns exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute. - Commissioned by Marina Abramovic Institute
November 3-29, 2020:
Presenting my new long-durational performance Correspondance (Morphology) daily between 12pm-6pm, except Mondays at the Sakip Sabanci Museum (SSM) in Istanbul as part of the exhibition Akis/Flux — organized by the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) and commissioned by the Sakip Sabanci Museum. - International Competition at BIDFF
September 3-6th, 2020:
My film Correspondance (Contact) was selected to be part of the International Competition at the 6th edition of Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (BIDFF). It will be screened on Sunday, September 6th between 9pm-10:30pm at the Cinéma Elvire Popesco as part of the “International Competition 3: Bodies & Fluidities” screening programme. - Nicht-Museum für zeitgemäße Kunst Dresden
July 25th, 2020:
Showing a selection of photographic works as part of the Nicht-Museum für zeitgemäße Kunst Dresden temporary exhibition at the Gewandhausareal am Neumarkt in Dresden, Germany. - Co-edited ICA Daily
June 15th, 2020:
Co-edited today’s ICA daily—an amazing feed of recommended reading, viewing, listening, and more—released every day by the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ curatorial team. My selection, titled ‘Choreographies of Passing (through)’, collects three distinct meditations on movement; with its ecological, cultural, political and ethical dimensions. - Radio Show at Montez Press Radio
May 27th, 2020 at 12pm BST:
Join our collaborative radio show titled Incantations, which will be broadcast on Montez Press Radio, New York. Created by a group of spellbound group of artists that have been working together tirelessly in a communal kitchen for the duration of the lockdown. This work has come together as a result of global shifts and collaborative incantations. - Interview with Hazal Gencay
I was interviewed by Hazal Gencay about my work and the practice of performance as a field of animate/animated/animist knowledge making. It is in Turkish, an English translation is available upon request.
- Corporeality reader for E-Flux
Compiled a reader for E-Flux titled Corporeality (image by Renee Gladman):
Now that social distancing has transcended the metaphorical and has become a corpo-reality, we are inevitably getting accustomed to new constellations of bodies and spaces. How space is occupied in this epidemic—both individually and collectively—demands taking a closer look at the body and its field of movement. What are today’s choreographies of solidarity and care? What kind of future can we imagine for other ways of being physically together in this world? This reader might aid in rethinking a renewed corporeality via new systems of interactions and spatiality.
- To the Unknown at Somerset House London
March 28th, 2020:
My work will be screened at Somerset House in London as part of the screening program To the UNKNOWN curated by Anne Duffau.To the UNKNOWN will unfold through discussions, performances, and screenings counteracting homogenization & imperialist historicizing – asking how we create a platform to question and defy the norm, what are the options, solutions & human representations we can explore for new possibilities.
With: Murat Adash, Julie Béna, Whiskey Chow, Kate Cooper, Sonya Dyer, Carla Gannis, Agi Haines, Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn), Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Sadé Mica, Sitraka Rakatoniaina, Tai Shani, Purple Velvet (Zoe Marden + Vasiliki Antonopoulou), Su-Hui-Yu.
- Choreographic Devices at ICA London
March 21st & 22nd, 2020:
Co-organizing Choreographic Devices, a two-day choreographic symposium taking place at the ICA London.Choreographic Devices assembles contributors operating across multiple disciplinary boundaries, including Murat Adash (artist), Edwina Ashton (artist), Monika Blaszczak (choreographer), Ofri Cnaani (artist), Augusto Corrieri (artist), Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin + Bojana Janković) (artists), Bojana Cvejic (writer), Cécile B. Evans (artist), Alix Eynaudi (artist), Lou Forster (art historian, curator), Orit Gat (writer), Martin Hargreaves (dramaturg, writer, performer), Vlatka Horvat (artist), Helen Juffs and Joanne Tremarco (End of Life Doulas), Lenio Kaklea (choreographer, dancer, writer), Benoît Lachambre (choreographer), Han-Gyeol Lie (musician), Raimundas Malasauskas (silk painter), Tavi Meraud (artist), Zoë Mendelson (artist), Harun Morrison (artist, writer), Lara Pawson (writer), Lucia Pietroiusti (curator), Stamatia Portanova (theorist), Filipa Ramos (writer), Will Rawls (choreographer, performer, writer), Kostas Retsikas (anthropologist), Irit Rogoff (theorist), Florian Roithmayr (with Borbála Soós) (artist), Gregor Samsa (clothier), Edgar Schmitz (artist), Malik Nashad Sharpe (choreographer), Noémie Solomon (theorist, curator), Alex Franz Zehetbauer (mixologist).
- Talk at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
February 17th, 2020 at 7pm:
Panel discussion with Tyler Coburn, Eva Wilson, Adam Gibbons and Friederike Sigler around future bodies, the value of work, choreography and institutions on the occasion of “#6 Tyler Coburn / Adam Gibbons”, the latest book in the series ” ” (quotation mark quotation mark, published by NERO) at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. - Gaze to the Unknown at Mimosa House
December 13 & 19, 2019:
My work will be screened at Mimosa House in London as part of the screening programme Gaze to the Unknown curated by Anne Duffau. Together with:Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Johann Arens, Matt Carter, Joel Chan, Hans Diernberger & Will Saunders, Tobias Gremmler, Babara Hammer, Karolina Lebek, Zoë Marden, Aura Satz, Peter Spanjer, Rehana Zamann and Mathis Hang Zhang.
- Unknown Depictions at PAF Olomouc 2019
December 6 & 7, 2019:
My work will be screened at PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art as part of the screening programme Unknown Depictions curated by Anne Duffau. Together with:Vasiliki Antonopoulou, JJ Chan, Matt Carter, Kate Cooper, Hans Diernberger & Will Saunders, Barbara Hammer, Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn), Tobias Gremmler, Tarek Lakhrissi, Sadé Mica, Victoria Sin, Peter Spanjer, Zadie Xa, Rehana Zaman and Mathis Hang Zhang.
- Beyond the Body at Wolf Cinema Berlin
November 10, 2019 from 4pm-8pm:
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened at Wolf Cinema in Berlin as part of the screening programme Beyond the Body curated by Mania Akbari. - Exhibition 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun
September 10 – October 10, 2019:
Participating in the group exhibition 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun in Geneva. - ATLAS Residency at ImPulsTanz Vienna
12 July–12 August 2019:
Residency in the ATLAS programme as part of Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival with public showing of a new work-in-progress performance entitled Correspondence with Alicja Czyczel. Supported by a grant from i-Portunus (Creative Europe Programme of the European Union). - Workshop at University of the Arts London
May 20, 2019 between 2-4pm:
Invited by London-based Hemera Collective to give a workshop around the politics of listening as part of the Collective Strategies programme at the University of the Arts London (LCC). - Performance at Het Nieuwe Instituut
April 18, 2019 between 12-10pm:
Performance screening at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (NL) as part of The Common Inn exhibition. - Screening at Royal College of Art
March 15, 2019 between 4-6.30pm:
Screening of my video One in the Other in the Gorvy Theatre at the Royal College of Art as part of the Living Research of conference. - The Six Viewpoints Workshop
March 01, 2019 between 10am-1pm:
Co-hosting a workshop on The Six Viewpoints at Goldsmiths, University of London together with workshop leaders Deborah Black and Ria Samartzi and fellow co-hosts Josefina Camus, Katharina Ludwig and Kate Pickering. - Reading Group at C/K Curatorial Knowledge
January 19, 2019 from 12-4pm:
Co-facilitating a reading group along with Ofri Cnaani and Dennis Dizon as part of the seminars led by the C/K – Curatorial Knowledge programme at Goldsmiths.Report on things (and non-things): In this reading group, we will be reading, side by side, two short texts from Brazilian writers Clarice Lispector and Vilém Flusser. Through these two formally inventive short pieces, we will discuss a set of constantly shifting relations between the Thing and the Non-Thing as they depart from the Ordered World (a fundamental order of every thing) into an Entangled one.
- Performance at MARs London
November 27, 2018 between 5-7pm:
Presenting new choreographic work Similitudes – A Duett with dancer Maria Da Luz Ghoumrassi at the Mountain of Art Research in London. - Screening at Barbican
November 19, 2018 between 7-10pm:
Screening of my recent video One in the Other at the Barbican Centre in London as part of Encounters organized by CHASE. - Delfina Presents: Murat Adash
Watch me talk about my recent work(s) I developed during my residency at Delfina Foundation:
- Open Studios at Delfina Foundation
June 19, 2018 between 6.30-9pm:
Presenting a live performance and video installation as part of the Performance as Process residency Open studios at Delfina Foundation!With: Murat Adash (Germany/Turkey), Liz Glynn (USA), Alina Gutkina (Russia), Clara Ianni (Brazil), Tamara Kuselman (Argentina), Maria Meinild (Denmark/Sweden), Robertas Narkus (Lithuania) and Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia).
- Residency at Delfina Foundation
Will be artist in residence at Delfina Foundation in London between April 2 to June 24, 2018. My residency is supported by SAHA Association (Istanbul).
http://www.delfinafoundation.com/in-residence/murat-adash/
- Performance at Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance Berlin
Performing at Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance Berlin as part of Bits & Pieces on February 3 and 4 at 7pm.
- À gorge sèche, après la traversée
Participating in the group exhibition À gorge sèche, après la traversée with fellow collaborator Hiba Farhat curated by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou. This will be the third iteration of The New Normal.
With:Murat Adash & Hiba Farhat, Younes Baba-ali, Ben Benaouisse, Halida Boughriet, Candice Breitz, Frederic Fourdinier, Ymane Fakhir, Kubra Khademi, Yazan Khalili, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Randa Maroufi, Fatima Mazmouz, Anna Raimondo and Pascale Rémita.
- Goethe Institut Turkey
Trans-ID exhibition with the Goethe Institut Turkey. Including a significant amount of artists with a Turkish background, together with an array of artists from all around the world, the exhibition relates both to exhibist’s aim to be a platform for contemporary art in Turkey and Space Debris’ driving concept of connecting the Istanbul art scene with international artists for an innovative dialogue with a collective soul, challenging traditional boundaries. Set within the historical building of the Armenian church Surp Yerrortutyun in the heart of Istanbul, on Istiklal Street, the exhibition also references the century-old history of Istanbul as a platform for the exchange of different cultures and a transnationalism that preceded the 21st century.
- Trans-ID Group Exhibition in Istanbul
Participating in the group exhibition Trans-ID curated by Anna Zizlsperger (Exhibist Magazine) und Seyhan Musaoğlu (Space Debris) at Surp Yerrortutyun Kilisesi in Istanbul between September 19 – October 24, 2017.
With: Murat Adash, Autumn Ahn, Nancy Atakan, Luna Ece Bal, Mehtap Baydu, Bashir Borlakov, Sinan Bökesoy, Melis Bursin, Şakir Gökçebağ, Allen Grubesic, Selin Kocagöncü, Servet Koçyiğit, Suat Öğüt, and Julie Upmeyer.
- Artist Talk at Staatskanzlei in Wiesbaden
Giving an artist talk at the Staatskanzlei in Wiesbaden to politicians of Hessen invited by the Hessische Kulturstiftung.
- Dance & Choreography Grant by Norbert Janssen Foundation
Received a generous grant by the Norbert Janssen Stiftung (Munich) for participation in the 10-month long Dance Intensive Residency at the Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance in Berlin.
- Cum-Ex at IG Metall Berlin
Cum-Ex group exhibition co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport at IG Metall in Berlin between June 9 – July 7, 2017.
With:Murat Adash, Naama Arad, Peppi Bottrop, Marco Bruzzone, Zuzanna Czebatul, Sofia Duchovny, Elif Erkan, Octavio Garabello, Alisa Heil, Real Madrid, Zoë Claire Miller, Maximilian Schmoetzer and Camilla Steinum.
- Travel Grant Roberto Cimetta Fund
Received a generous travel grant by the Roberto Cimetta Fund for my project Choreo-Geo-Graphy at Utopiana in Geneva.
- Residency at Utopiana, Geneva
Will be artist in residence at Utopiana in Geneva between the months of June and July 2018.
- The New Normal in Newcity Art
Read about The New Normal in Chicago Newcity Art:
- The New Normal (2) in Art Unlimited
Great article written about The New Normal by Mine Kaplangı in Art Unlimited:
- Screening at SALT in Istanbul
Screening as part of The New Normal at SALT Istanbul on May 6, 2017 from 4.30pm-8pm. More info:
- The New Normal in Mousse Magazine
Images up of The New Normal on Mousse Magazine
http://moussemagazine.it/new-normal-supa-salon-istanbul-2017/
- The New Normal (Part 2) in Istanbul
The second iteration of The New Normal co-organized with Hiba Farhat is now in Istanbul between May 5 – 7, 2017.
- Paroxysm of Union in Footnotes on Art
Images now up of the group exhibition Paroxysm of Union co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport in Athens between April 9 – 22, 2017.
- Paroxysm of Union in Athens
Group exhibition Paroxysm of Union co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport now in Athens between April 8 – 22, 2017.
With: Murat Adash (DE/TR), Naama Arad (IL), Marco Bruzzone (DE/IT), Mauro Cerqueira (PT), Chelsea Culprit (USA), Zuzanna Czebatul (DE/PL), Elif Erkan (DE/TR), Alisa Heil (DE), Zoe Claire Miller (USA/DE), Wieland Schönfelder (DE), Andre Sousa (PT), Sarah Wang (USA) and Pedro Wirz (BR/CH).
- The New Normal (1) in the Daily Star Lebanon
Article written about The New Normal in Beirut by Alice Rowsome.
- The New Normal (1) in Camera Austria & Ashkal Alwan
More info on The New Normal (1) in Beirut to be found on theCamera Austria and Ashkal Alwan websites.
- The New Normal (1) in Beirut
The first iteration of The New Normal will take place both at The Hangar (UMAM D&R) and at Dawawine in Beirut between March 10 – 12, 2017. More info:
- Residency at the Mountain School of Arts Los Angeles
I will be a resident artist between February 9 – 23, 2017 at the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.
- Performance at Art On Istanbul
Presenting my new performance Face Time at Art On Istanbul organized by Performistanbul on October 22, 2016 at 6pm.
https://performistanbul.org
https://www.artonistanbul.com/
http://www.cornucopia.net - To the Extent on Footnotes on Art
Images of To the Extent now up on Footnotes on Art.
- Performance at Alt Art Space in Istanbul
New performance To the Extent to be presented at Alt Art Space on October 9, 2016 at 3pm. Concurrent with exhibitions by Allora & Calzadilla, Ahmet Öğüt and Marwa Arsanios.
- Participation in Manifesta 11
Presenting a new performance entitled Industrial Intimacy as part of the performance program of the Manifesta Biennial at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Organized by Manuel Scheiwiller.
- Recipient of Studio Grant by Hessische Kulturstiftung
Been awarded the one-year studio grant by the Hessische Kulturstiftung (Germany) to conduct research on social choreography in Istanbul.
- Newspaper article about my Istanbul studio grant
Article in German local newspaper written by Andrea Pauly about my practice and upcoming one-year studio grant in Istanbul.
- Choreographic Devices 2025 at ICA London
January 19th, 12:30-9:00pm:
Please join us for another iteration of Choreographic Devices taking place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
Co-organized by Murat Adash, Ofri Cnaani, Edgar Schmitz and Sara Sassanelli, Choreographic Devices is an annual event series that activates the “choreographic” as a methodology for trans-disciplinary forms of inquiry and rehearsal. Bringing together contributors from across an expanded ecology of practices, this multi-format forum speculates on and with choreographic arrangements and their complex modes of co-production. Choreographic Devices tests how material assemblages, organisational forms, and modes of being alongside each other might be choreographed otherwise.
Contributors to the fourth iteration include Murat Adash, Anjana Bala, jee chan, Ofri Cnaani, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Ella Finer, keyon gaskin, Jelena Golubović, Martin Hargreaves, Raimundas Malasauskas, Arjuna Neuman, Nissa Nishikawa, Bilawa Ade Respati, Heidi Rustgaard, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, SERAFINE1369, Esther Siddiquie, Vaida Stepanovaité and Bartosz Zurowski.
- Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius
August 3, 2024 between 12:30-9pm:
Choreographic Devices is returning, this time as part of the ten-day sound and performance programme “Days of Re-entry” at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (Lithuania). Co-organized together with Ofri Cnaani, Edgar Schmitz and Sara Sassanelli, this new iteration includes contributions by Murat Adash, Eglė Budvytytė, OMSK Social Club, Ofri Cnaani, keyon gaskin, Paveldo Institutas, Tarren Johnson, Agnė Jokšė, Michael Kitchin, Raimundas Malašauskas, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, SERAFINE1369, Esther Siddiquie, Himali Singh Soin, Eve Stainton, Vaida Stepanovaitė, and Protektorama toxica (fed and cared for by JP Raether).
- Open House at Headlands
July 21, 2024 between 12-5pm:
Screening two moving images in the Rodeo Room, as well as exhibiting a video sculpture in the studio as part of the Open House exhibition at the Headlands Center for the Arts. - Headlands Center for the Arts
July 15 – August 31, 2024:
I’ll be an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts just north of San Francisco in the Marin Headlands for six weeks in July and August. - Performance at Neue Nationalgalerie
June 13, 2024, all day event:
Performing at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin as part of the happening “We Are In This Together”—organized by Kieran Behan and summoned as part of the collective Cultivation. - Research & Desire at Haus am Waldsee
June 1st, 2024, 6-10pm:
Speaking and screening as part of the conference on “Research & Desire” at Haus am Waldsee in Berlin—organized by the Society for Artistic Research in Germany (gkfd). I am part of a panel with psychoanalyst Nadine Hartmann and writer Anna Gien, moderated by Dr. Kathrin Busch. - Berlin Artistic Research Programme
Happy to announce that I was selected a fellow as part of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme for the years 2024 and 2025 together with Bini Adamczak, Jessica Ekomane, Daniel Falb, Holly Herndon, Anton Kats, Dan Lie, Henrike Naumann, İz Öztat, Marta Popivoda, Anta Helena Recke, Konstanze Schmitt and Luise Schröder. My project “Dazzling Encounters: Camouflage and the Choreography of Queer Alterity” brings together minoritarian and marginalized bodies of knowledge in combining queer studies and indigenous Amazonian cosmologies in novel ways.
- New Performance at Istituto Svizzero, Milan
December 15th, 2023 from 6:30-11pm:
Presenting my new performance Correspondance (Threshold) as part of the SOL INVICTUS: Sounds and performances for the winter solstice curated by Gioia Dal Molin as part of Istituto Svizzero’s performance program at the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli in Milan.
- PhD at Goldsmiths
November 17th, 2023:
Officially and successfully completed my five-year long, practice-based Ph.D. project without corrections entitled “Edges of Bodies: Camouflage, Correspondence and the Choreography of Alterity” in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London. A short abstract of the research project can be found here.
- Correspondance (Shimmer) in Istanbul
September 16th, 2023 from 5-8pm:
Performing my three-hour long durational live performance entitled Correspondance (Shimmer) as part of the 2023 Summer Festival at Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul. This new choreographic work is performed together with dancers Aslı Bostancı, Melih Kıraç and Kamola Rashidova.
- Choreographic Devices 2023 at ICA London
June 17th, 2023 from 12-9pm:
Co-organizing another iteration of Choreographic Devices—this time an interim, smaller scale one-day event taking place again at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.
With contributions by: Murat Adash, Charlie Ashwell, Eglė Budvytytė, Elly Clarke, Ofri Cnaani, keyon gaskin, Adrian Heathfield, Raimundas Malasauskas, SERAFINE1369, Protektorama toxica, Emily Rosamond, Sara Sassanelli, Edgar Schmitz, and Himali Singh Soin.
In addition to co-organizing the entire event, I am also hosting a session entitled alterity, alterity—featuring live performances by myself and Protektorama toxica (fed and cared for by JP Raether), as well as prerecorded contributions by Eglė Budvytytė and Himali Singh Soin.
- Dance Lab Project 2023 in Macau
March 10-12th, as well as 16th, 2023:
Teaching a four-day movement workshop entitled “Where do I begin, and where do I end?” at this year’s Dance Lab Project in Macau (China). Combining readings, movement inquiries and writing exercises, this workshop focuses on the phenomenon of mimicry to explore notions of boundaries and thresholds: between bodies and their spatial surroundings, inside and outside, and writing and dancing.
- Residency at Kulturakademie Tarabya
I was selected as an artist-in-residence at the Kulturakademie Tarabya (Goethe-Institut) in Istanbul, where I’ll be working on a project between February and May 2023.
- The Voices of A Tempest
07 Dec 2022 – 18 Mar 2023:
My film One in the Other (Part One) is being screened as part of the group exhibition The Voices of A Tempest at Somerset House in London, curated by A—Z (Anne Duffau). - Correspondance (Surface) at MAK
8 October 2022 – 15 January 2023:
My new multi-media installation Correspondance (Surface) has been commissioned for the three-person exhibition Contact Zones at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main. The exhibition is curated by Eike Walkenhorst in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. - Artist in Residence at Studio Voltaire
I’ll be artist-in-residence at Studio Voltaire in London between 6 June 2022—16 September 2022, working towards an upcoming museum exhibition in Germany.
- Choreographic Devices at ICA London
June 10-12, 2022:
Co-organizing Choreographic Devices, a three-day choreographic symposium taking place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London.Choreographic Devices assembles contributors operating across multiple disciplinary boundaries, including Murat Adash (artist), Edwina Ashton (artist), D. Graham Burnett (teacher, writer, interdisciplinary maker), Ofri Cnaani (artist), Augusto Corrieri (artist), Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin + Bojana Janković) (artists), Lou Forster (art historian, curator), keyon gaskin (artist), Martin Hargreaves (dramaturg, writer, performer), Vlatka Horvat (artist), Lenio Kaklea (choreographer, dancer, writer), Sarah Keenan (writer, theorist), André Lepecki (performance studies theorist, curator), Jason Edward Lewis (digital media theorist, poet, software designer), Raimundas Malasauskas (silk painter), Tavi Meraud (artist), Samaneh Moafi (architect, investigator), Rebecca Moss (artist), Harun Morrison (artist, writer), Sandra Noeth (body theorist, curator), Lara Pawson (writer), Daniela Perazzo (dance and performance theorist), Stamatia Portanova (theorist), Filipa Ramos (writer, curator), Irit Rogoff (educator, theorist), Florian Roithmayr (artist), Georgia Sagri (artist), Edgar Schmitz (artist), SERAFINE1369 (artist), Noémie Solomon (theorist, curator), Matthias Sperling (artist, choreographer, performer), Starhawk (author, permaculture designer, teacher, activist), Soap Bubble (complex mathematical problem), and Arkadi Zaides (choreographer).
- Artist-in-Resident at Rupert
During the months of April and May 2022, I’ll be artist-in-residence at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Group show at San Mei Gallery
March 25 – 27, 2022:
Have work on display as part of the group show entitled The Healing Collective:
The Spring Gatheringat San Mei Gallery in London, UK. - Screening at Cinema Beltrade Milan
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened at Cinema Beltrade in Milan on October 27th, 2021 as part of the INTĭM ~ US screening programme.
- Workshop: Altered States of Corporeality
I am holding a reading session Sept 27th, 2021 between 6-8pm (UK time), reading Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia by Roger Caillois, followed by a movement workshop that I am leading the next morning Sept 28th, 2021 between 10am-12pm (UK time). The workshop is organized by artists Hollie Miller and Hannah Buckley and the project is supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Wainsgate Dances and Studio 307.
- Artist-in-Resident at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
I’ll be resident artist as part of the INHABIT residency programme at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) for three months between September – November 2021. My artistic research project “The Self in Camouflage: Altered States of Corporeality” will develop a novel conception of “camouflage” as a field of research and choreographic inquiry. Beyond the idea of animal or insect mimicry, I will rethink camouflage as a spatial act, a process through which the self is negotiated in and through space and which – like choreography – involves a transformation of the embodied self in relation to an environment.
- Festival at Kunsthalle Kohta
August 12 – October 10, 2021:
Contributed a palm-sized artwork in the form of an ancient rock to the First International Festival of Manuports taking place at Kunsthalle Kohta in Helsinki, Finland. - Interview with Art Unlimited
I was interviewed by Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Özel for Art Unlimited about my work Correspondance (Morphology) and my recent collaboration with the Marina Abramovic Institute. The interview is in Turkish, an English translation is available upon request.
- Group exhibition A Spirit of Disruption
March 19 – July 3rd, 2021:
My work is included in the group exhibition A Spirit of Disruption at the Walter and McBean Galleries in San Francisco, United States. - Workshop at Chelsea College of Art
February 1st, 2020 between 1-4pm:
Held a workshop on somatic movement and improvised ritual for MFA students at the Chelsea College of Art as part of their international festival Heterotopia.In this workshop, participants will be guided through somatic inquiry and improvised ritual to set in motion individual and collaborative world-making processes: utilizing presence, contemplation, awareness, imagination and altered states of being to bring forth both personal as well as collective instances of insight, recognition, perspective and transformation. Through a set of performative exercises, participants will move into their senses by practicing grounding, self-observation and attention to one’s surroundings. By attuning to the subtle, felt, invisible and imaginary space within, participants will have the opportunity to share and carry outwards an intention for individual or collective healing.
- Screening at San Francisco Art Institute
January 23rd, 2020:
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened between 7pm-8:30pm on January 23rd as part of the Three Turns exhibition at the San Francisco Art Institute. - Commissioned by Marina Abramovic Institute
November 3-29, 2020:
Presenting my new long-durational performance Correspondance (Morphology) daily between 12pm-6pm, except Mondays at the Sakip Sabanci Museum (SSM) in Istanbul as part of the exhibition Akis/Flux — organized by the Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI) and commissioned by the Sakip Sabanci Museum. - International Competition at BIDFF
September 3-6th, 2020:
My film Correspondance (Contact) was selected to be part of the International Competition at the 6th edition of Bucharest International Dance Film Festival (BIDFF). It will be screened on Sunday, September 6th between 9pm-10:30pm at the Cinéma Elvire Popesco as part of the “International Competition 3: Bodies & Fluidities” screening programme. - Nicht-Museum für zeitgemäße Kunst Dresden
July 25th, 2020:
Showing a selection of photographic works as part of the Nicht-Museum für zeitgemäße Kunst Dresden temporary exhibition at the Gewandhausareal am Neumarkt in Dresden, Germany. - Co-edited ICA Daily
June 15th, 2020:
Co-edited today’s ICA daily—an amazing feed of recommended reading, viewing, listening, and more—released every day by the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ curatorial team. My selection, titled ‘Choreographies of Passing (through)’, collects three distinct meditations on movement; with its ecological, cultural, political and ethical dimensions. - Radio Show at Montez Press Radio
May 27th, 2020 at 12pm BST:
Join our collaborative radio show titled Incantations, which will be broadcast on Montez Press Radio, New York. Created by a group of spellbound group of artists that have been working together tirelessly in a communal kitchen for the duration of the lockdown. This work has come together as a result of global shifts and collaborative incantations. - Interview with Hazal Gencay
I was interviewed by Hazal Gencay about my work and the practice of performance as a field of animate/animated/animist knowledge making. It is in Turkish, an English translation is available upon request.
- Corporeality reader for E-Flux
Compiled a reader for E-Flux titled Corporeality (image by Renee Gladman):
Now that social distancing has transcended the metaphorical and has become a corpo-reality, we are inevitably getting accustomed to new constellations of bodies and spaces. How space is occupied in this epidemic—both individually and collectively—demands taking a closer look at the body and its field of movement. What are today’s choreographies of solidarity and care? What kind of future can we imagine for other ways of being physically together in this world? This reader might aid in rethinking a renewed corporeality via new systems of interactions and spatiality.
- To the Unknown at Somerset House London
March 28th, 2020:
My work will be screened at Somerset House in London as part of the screening program To the UNKNOWN curated by Anne Duffau.To the UNKNOWN will unfold through discussions, performances, and screenings counteracting homogenization & imperialist historicizing – asking how we create a platform to question and defy the norm, what are the options, solutions & human representations we can explore for new possibilities.
With: Murat Adash, Julie Béna, Whiskey Chow, Kate Cooper, Sonya Dyer, Carla Gannis, Agi Haines, Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn), Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Sadé Mica, Sitraka Rakatoniaina, Tai Shani, Purple Velvet (Zoe Marden + Vasiliki Antonopoulou), Su-Hui-Yu.
- Choreographic Devices at ICA London
March 21st & 22nd, 2020:
Co-organizing Choreographic Devices, a two-day choreographic symposium taking place at the ICA London.Choreographic Devices assembles contributors operating across multiple disciplinary boundaries, including Murat Adash (artist), Edwina Ashton (artist), Monika Blaszczak (choreographer), Ofri Cnaani (artist), Augusto Corrieri (artist), Critical Interruptions (Diana Damian Martin + Bojana Janković) (artists), Bojana Cvejic (writer), Cécile B. Evans (artist), Alix Eynaudi (artist), Lou Forster (art historian, curator), Orit Gat (writer), Martin Hargreaves (dramaturg, writer, performer), Vlatka Horvat (artist), Helen Juffs and Joanne Tremarco (End of Life Doulas), Lenio Kaklea (choreographer, dancer, writer), Benoît Lachambre (choreographer), Han-Gyeol Lie (musician), Raimundas Malasauskas (silk painter), Tavi Meraud (artist), Zoë Mendelson (artist), Harun Morrison (artist, writer), Lara Pawson (writer), Lucia Pietroiusti (curator), Stamatia Portanova (theorist), Filipa Ramos (writer), Will Rawls (choreographer, performer, writer), Kostas Retsikas (anthropologist), Irit Rogoff (theorist), Florian Roithmayr (with Borbála Soós) (artist), Gregor Samsa (clothier), Edgar Schmitz (artist), Malik Nashad Sharpe (choreographer), Noémie Solomon (theorist, curator), Alex Franz Zehetbauer (mixologist).
- Talk at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
February 17th, 2020 at 7pm:
Panel discussion with Tyler Coburn, Eva Wilson, Adam Gibbons and Friederike Sigler around future bodies, the value of work, choreography and institutions on the occasion of “#6 Tyler Coburn / Adam Gibbons”, the latest book in the series ” ” (quotation mark quotation mark, published by NERO) at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. - Gaze to the Unknown at Mimosa House
December 13 & 19, 2019:
My work will be screened at Mimosa House in London as part of the screening programme Gaze to the Unknown curated by Anne Duffau. Together with:Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Johann Arens, Matt Carter, Joel Chan, Hans Diernberger & Will Saunders, Tobias Gremmler, Babara Hammer, Karolina Lebek, Zoë Marden, Aura Satz, Peter Spanjer, Rehana Zamann and Mathis Hang Zhang.
- Unknown Depictions at PAF Olomouc 2019
December 6 & 7, 2019:
My work will be screened at PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art as part of the screening programme Unknown Depictions curated by Anne Duffau. Together with:Vasiliki Antonopoulou, JJ Chan, Matt Carter, Kate Cooper, Hans Diernberger & Will Saunders, Barbara Hammer, Holly Herndon & Jlin (feat. Spawn), Tobias Gremmler, Tarek Lakhrissi, Sadé Mica, Victoria Sin, Peter Spanjer, Zadie Xa, Rehana Zaman and Mathis Hang Zhang.
- Beyond the Body at Wolf Cinema Berlin
November 10, 2019 from 4pm-8pm:
My film Correspondance (Contact) will be screened at Wolf Cinema in Berlin as part of the screening programme Beyond the Body curated by Mania Akbari. - Exhibition 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun
September 10 – October 10, 2019:
Participating in the group exhibition 1000 Ecologies at Le Commun in Geneva. - ATLAS Residency at ImPulsTanz Vienna
12 July–12 August 2019:
Residency in the ATLAS programme as part of Impulstanz – Vienna International Dance Festival with public showing of a new work-in-progress performance entitled Correspondence with Alicja Czyczel. Supported by a grant from i-Portunus (Creative Europe Programme of the European Union). - Workshop at University of the Arts London
May 20, 2019 between 2-4pm:
Invited by London-based Hemera Collective to give a workshop around the politics of listening as part of the Collective Strategies programme at the University of the Arts London (LCC). - Performance at Het Nieuwe Instituut
April 18, 2019 between 12-10pm:
Performance screening at the Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (NL) as part of The Common Inn exhibition. - Screening at Royal College of Art
March 15, 2019 between 4-6.30pm:
Screening of my video One in the Other in the Gorvy Theatre at the Royal College of Art as part of the Living Research of conference. - The Six Viewpoints Workshop
March 01, 2019 between 10am-1pm:
Co-hosting a workshop on The Six Viewpoints at Goldsmiths, University of London together with workshop leaders Deborah Black and Ria Samartzi and fellow co-hosts Josefina Camus, Katharina Ludwig and Kate Pickering. - Reading Group at C/K Curatorial Knowledge
January 19, 2019 from 12-4pm:
Co-facilitating a reading group along with Ofri Cnaani and Dennis Dizon as part of the seminars led by the C/K – Curatorial Knowledge programme at Goldsmiths.Report on things (and non-things): In this reading group, we will be reading, side by side, two short texts from Brazilian writers Clarice Lispector and Vilém Flusser. Through these two formally inventive short pieces, we will discuss a set of constantly shifting relations between the Thing and the Non-Thing as they depart from the Ordered World (a fundamental order of every thing) into an Entangled one.
- Performance at MARs London
November 27, 2018 between 5-7pm:
Presenting new choreographic work Similitudes – A Duett with dancer Maria Da Luz Ghoumrassi at the Mountain of Art Research in London. - Screening at Barbican
November 19, 2018 between 7-10pm:
Screening of my recent video One in the Other at the Barbican Centre in London as part of Encounters organized by CHASE. - Delfina Presents: Murat Adash
Watch me talk about my recent work(s) I developed during my residency at Delfina Foundation:
- Open Studios at Delfina Foundation
June 19, 2018 between 6.30-9pm:
Presenting a live performance and video installation as part of the Performance as Process residency Open studios at Delfina Foundation!With: Murat Adash (Germany/Turkey), Liz Glynn (USA), Alina Gutkina (Russia), Clara Ianni (Brazil), Tamara Kuselman (Argentina), Maria Meinild (Denmark/Sweden), Robertas Narkus (Lithuania) and Joned Suryatmoko (Indonesia).
- Residency at Delfina Foundation
Will be artist in residence at Delfina Foundation in London between April 2 to June 24, 2018. My residency is supported by SAHA Association (Istanbul).
http://www.delfinafoundation.com/in-residence/murat-adash/
- Performance at Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance Berlin
Performing at Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance Berlin as part of Bits & Pieces on February 3 and 4 at 7pm.
- À gorge sèche, après la traversée
Participating in the group exhibition À gorge sèche, après la traversée with fellow collaborator Hiba Farhat curated by Mehdi-Georges Lahlou. This will be the third iteration of The New Normal.
With:Murat Adash & Hiba Farhat, Younes Baba-ali, Ben Benaouisse, Halida Boughriet, Candice Breitz, Frederic Fourdinier, Ymane Fakhir, Kubra Khademi, Yazan Khalili, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Randa Maroufi, Fatima Mazmouz, Anna Raimondo and Pascale Rémita.
- Goethe Institut Turkey
Trans-ID exhibition with the Goethe Institut Turkey. Including a significant amount of artists with a Turkish background, together with an array of artists from all around the world, the exhibition relates both to exhibist’s aim to be a platform for contemporary art in Turkey and Space Debris’ driving concept of connecting the Istanbul art scene with international artists for an innovative dialogue with a collective soul, challenging traditional boundaries. Set within the historical building of the Armenian church Surp Yerrortutyun in the heart of Istanbul, on Istiklal Street, the exhibition also references the century-old history of Istanbul as a platform for the exchange of different cultures and a transnationalism that preceded the 21st century.
- Trans-ID Group Exhibition in Istanbul
Participating in the group exhibition Trans-ID curated by Anna Zizlsperger (Exhibist Magazine) und Seyhan Musaoğlu (Space Debris) at Surp Yerrortutyun Kilisesi in Istanbul between September 19 – October 24, 2017.
With: Murat Adash, Autumn Ahn, Nancy Atakan, Luna Ece Bal, Mehtap Baydu, Bashir Borlakov, Sinan Bökesoy, Melis Bursin, Şakir Gökçebağ, Allen Grubesic, Selin Kocagöncü, Servet Koçyiğit, Suat Öğüt, and Julie Upmeyer.
- Artist Talk at Staatskanzlei in Wiesbaden
Giving an artist talk at the Staatskanzlei in Wiesbaden to politicians of Hessen invited by the Hessische Kulturstiftung.
- Dance & Choreography Grant by Norbert Janssen Foundation
Received a generous grant by the Norbert Janssen Stiftung (Munich) for participation in the 10-month long Dance Intensive Residency at the Tanzfabrik – Center for Contemporary Dance in Berlin.
- Cum-Ex at IG Metall Berlin
Cum-Ex group exhibition co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport at IG Metall in Berlin between June 9 – July 7, 2017.
With:Murat Adash, Naama Arad, Peppi Bottrop, Marco Bruzzone, Zuzanna Czebatul, Sofia Duchovny, Elif Erkan, Octavio Garabello, Alisa Heil, Real Madrid, Zoë Claire Miller, Maximilian Schmoetzer and Camilla Steinum.
- Travel Grant Roberto Cimetta Fund
Received a generous travel grant by the Roberto Cimetta Fund for my project Choreo-Geo-Graphy at Utopiana in Geneva.
- Residency at Utopiana, Geneva
Will be artist in residence at Utopiana in Geneva between the months of June and July 2018.
- The New Normal in Newcity Art
Read about The New Normal in Chicago Newcity Art:
- The New Normal (2) in Art Unlimited
Great article written about The New Normal by Mine Kaplangı in Art Unlimited:
- Screening at SALT in Istanbul
Screening as part of The New Normal at SALT Istanbul on May 6, 2017 from 4.30pm-8pm. More info:
- The New Normal in Mousse Magazine
Images up of The New Normal on Mousse Magazine
http://moussemagazine.it/new-normal-supa-salon-istanbul-2017/
- The New Normal (Part 2) in Istanbul
The second iteration of The New Normal co-organized with Hiba Farhat is now in Istanbul between May 5 – 7, 2017.
- Paroxysm of Union in Footnotes on Art
Images now up of the group exhibition Paroxysm of Union co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport in Athens between April 9 – 22, 2017.
- Paroxysm of Union in Athens
Group exhibition Paroxysm of Union co-curated with Kunsthalle Freeport now in Athens between April 8 – 22, 2017.
With: Murat Adash (DE/TR), Naama Arad (IL), Marco Bruzzone (DE/IT), Mauro Cerqueira (PT), Chelsea Culprit (USA), Zuzanna Czebatul (DE/PL), Elif Erkan (DE/TR), Alisa Heil (DE), Zoe Claire Miller (USA/DE), Wieland Schönfelder (DE), Andre Sousa (PT), Sarah Wang (USA) and Pedro Wirz (BR/CH).
- The New Normal (1) in the Daily Star Lebanon
Article written about The New Normal in Beirut by Alice Rowsome.
- The New Normal (1) in Camera Austria & Ashkal Alwan
More info on The New Normal (1) in Beirut to be found on theCamera Austria and Ashkal Alwan websites.
- The New Normal (1) in Beirut
The first iteration of The New Normal will take place both at The Hangar (UMAM D&R) and at Dawawine in Beirut between March 10 – 12, 2017. More info:
- Residency at the Mountain School of Arts Los Angeles
I will be a resident artist between February 9 – 23, 2017 at the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.
- Performance at Art On Istanbul
Presenting my new performance Face Time at Art On Istanbul organized by Performistanbul on October 22, 2016 at 6pm.
https://performistanbul.org
https://www.artonistanbul.com/
http://www.cornucopia.net - To the Extent on Footnotes on Art
Images of To the Extent now up on Footnotes on Art.
- Performance at Alt Art Space in Istanbul
New performance To the Extent to be presented at Alt Art Space on October 9, 2016 at 3pm. Concurrent with exhibitions by Allora & Calzadilla, Ahmet Öğüt and Marwa Arsanios.
- Participation in Manifesta 11
Presenting a new performance entitled Industrial Intimacy as part of the performance program of the Manifesta Biennial at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Organized by Manuel Scheiwiller.
- Recipient of Studio Grant by Hessische Kulturstiftung
Been awarded the one-year studio grant by the Hessische Kulturstiftung (Germany) to conduct research on social choreography in Istanbul.
- Newspaper article about my Istanbul studio grant
Article in German local newspaper written by Andrea Pauly about my practice and upcoming one-year studio grant in Istanbul.
Murat Adash is an artist and researcher working across live performance, moving image, sound, installation and writing. Through a performance- and movement-based practice, Murat creates choreographies in a range of media that seek to explore the ephemeral nature of physical boundaries – particularly regarding the dynamic edges between bodies and the spaces in which they come together. Beyond the idea of animal or insect mimicry, Murat has been developing a performative research body that rethinks the phenomenon of camouflage as a spatial act, a process through which the self is negotiated in and through space – processes that are intrinsic to choreography as well.
Recent exhibitions and performances include: Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 2024; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2024; Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 2023; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 2023; Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul, 2023; Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, 2022; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2021; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, 2021; San Francisco Art Institute, 2021; Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, 2020; Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, 2020; Somerset House, London, 2020; Mimosa House, London, 2019; Le Commun, Geneva, 2019; Mumok, Vienna, 2019; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019; Barbican, London, 2018; Delfina Foundation, London, 2018; Tanzfabrik – Centre for Contemporary Dance, Berlin, 2018; SALT, Istanbul, 2017; The Hangar, Beirut, 2017; Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016; Art On Istanbul, Istanbul, 2016; Alt Art Space, Istanbul, 2016; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, 2015; EXPO Chicago, 2014; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, 2013; Grimmuseum, Berlin, 2013; Motorenhalle, Dresden, 2013; Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India, 2013. Murat Adash has recently participated in residency programs at Studio Voltaire (London), Rupert (Vilnius), Delfina Foundation (London), Utopiana (Geneva), Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles) and conducted research on camouflage during an artist residency at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Adash holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a practice-based PhD in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Murat Adash is an artist and researcher working across live performance, moving image, sound, installation and writing. Through a performance- and movement-based practice, Murat creates choreographies in a range of media that seek to explore the ephemeral nature of physical boundaries – particularly regarding the dynamic edges between bodies and the spaces in which they come together. Beyond the idea of animal or insect mimicry, Murat has been developing a performative research body that rethinks the phenomenon of camouflage as a spatial act, a process through which the self is negotiated in and through space – processes that are intrinsic to choreography as well.
Recent exhibitions and performances include: Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, 2024; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2024; Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 2023; Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, 2023; Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul, 2023; Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, 2022; The Mosaic Rooms, London, 2021; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, 2021; San Francisco Art Institute, 2021; Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, 2020; Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, 2020; Somerset House, London, 2020; Mimosa House, London, 2019; Le Commun, Geneva, 2019; Mumok, Vienna, 2019; Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 2019; Barbican, London, 2018; Delfina Foundation, London, 2018; Tanzfabrik – Centre for Contemporary Dance, Berlin, 2018; SALT, Istanbul, 2017; The Hangar, Beirut, 2017; Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016; Art On Istanbul, Istanbul, 2016; Alt Art Space, Istanbul, 2016; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago, 2015; EXPO Chicago, 2014; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, 2013; Grimmuseum, Berlin, 2013; Motorenhalle, Dresden, 2013; Kriti Gallery, Varanasi, India, 2013. Murat Adash has recently participated in residency programs at Studio Voltaire (London), Rupert (Vilnius), Delfina Foundation (London), Utopiana (Geneva), Mountain School of Arts (Los Angeles) and conducted research on camouflage during an artist residency at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt/Main (Germany). Adash holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a practice-based PhD in Art from Goldsmiths, University of London.
