Ekim başında bir haftalığına Yunanistan’da, Atina’nın kuzeybatısındaki ünlü antik kent Thivas / Thebias’da (Thebes) sürmekte olan SPHINX 2015 (Sfenks 2015) etkinliklerine davetliyim.
Etkinlikler kapsamında 1 Ekim’de açılacak sergide “2011 yılında Avrupa’da çok küçük bir ada ya da çok yakında bütün Avrupa” adlı resmim sergilenecek. Ayrıca aynı hafta antik kentte yeralan iki ayrı meydanda iki ayrı etkinliğim sahne alıyor.
İlki 4 Ekim pazar günü düzenleyeceğim -umarım- çok katılımlı bir performans. İsmi ingilizce ve çevrilmesi mümkün değil: The inter(s)a(n)ction of third individuations. Angela Merkel’in 2010 yılının Ekim ayında sarfettiği ve Avrupa’da yeni bir çağı başlattığını düşündüğüm cümlelere 5 yılın ardından vermeyi düşündüğüm bir cevap.
Şöyle demişti Merkel, Postdam’da Hıristiyan Demokratik Birlik (CDU) gençlik kolu toplantısında yaptığı konuşmada: ”Kuşkusuz, yan yana yaşayacak, çokkültürlü bir toplum inşa etme yaklaşımı başarısız oldu, tek kelimeyle başarısız”.
Ben Merkel’in bu cümlelerini, her bitirdiğinde yeniden başa alarak, arka arkaya ekledim. Her yeniden ekleyişimde yavaşlattım. Yeni bir ses dosyasına 14 dakika boyunca yaydım. Artık o ses iniltiye, çok sevdiğim bir arkadaşımın benzetmesiyle “Tepegöz Polyphemus’un, mağarasında, Odysseus’a haykırışına” dönüşünceye kadar…
Performansa şimdiden elimdeki tüm olanaklarla davet ettiğim Atina ve Thivas’lılardan, oralara varınca bulacağımı düşündüğüm diğerlerinden istediğim ise, Thebes’in “Ag. Georgios” (yani Aya Yorgi, Saint George ya da Cercis Aleyhisselam) Meydanı’nda, Merkel’in dönüştürülmüş sesi güçlü hoparlörlerden boşanırken, o hoparlörlerin karşısında, kendi seçtikleri şarkıları kulaklıklarından dinleyerek dansetmeleri. Danslarının sonunda da kendi ve dansetmek için seçtikleri o şarkıların isimlerini bana iletmeleri…
Performansın hazırlığından başlayarak, sürecini, kendisini belgelerken, onların isimleri ve şarkı listelerini de yayınlayacağım bir web sitesi ise hedefim, sonraki işim. Daha öte hedefim ise bu “sessiz” dansları tüm Avrupa’ya yayabilmek. Bakalım… Daha Thebes’te kaç katılımcıyla yola başlayacağımı bile bilmiyorum.
5 Ekim’de ise Thebes’in Sinikismos Meydanı’nda ise “Sazak’ın Dikenleri” ilk kez Yunanistan’da, açık havada, perdede gösterilecek. Sinikismos, 1922 yılında Anadolu, Küçük Asya’daki kırımdan kaçan, topraklarından sürülen sığınmacıların yerleştikleri meydan. Sanırım bu videomun gösterimi için iyi bir yer seçimi.
Aşağıda peformans çağrımı temellendirdiğim, tanımladığım ingilizce proje metnimi bulacaksınız. Etkinliğin Facebook sayfasını, açık çağrımı, Yunanistan’daki dostlarınızla paylaşır ve onların da yaygınlaştırmasını isterseniz sevinirim:
The inter(s)a(n)ction of third individuations
“At the external level, the immigrant has to rediscover the acceptable limits of interpersonal space. The extent of physical contact, spatial proximity and psychological intimacy becomes a matter of renewed psychosocial negotiation and practice. More important, the immigrant finds himself “too far” from his country of origin, a distance that he, like the practicing phase toddler, might greatly enjoy for some time. Sooner or later, however, the anxiety of having exceeded the symbiotic orbit surfaces. The immigrant’s ego loses the support it had drawn from the familiar environment, climate, and landscape—all unconsciously perceived as extensions of the mother. “Attempts at restoration of such ego support may lead the immigrant to seek a climate and ethnic surrounding much like his original, and may become involved in a lifelong attempt at symbolic restitution of his motherland”.
(Salman Akhtar (1995), “A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, And The Psychoanalytic Process”, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 43:1051-1084)
“This is why Lacan’s formula for overcoming an ideological impossibility is not ‘everything is possible’, but ‘the impossible happens’. The Lacanian impossible-real is not an a priori limitation, which needs to be realistically taken into account, but the domain of action. An act is more than an intervention into the domain of the possible—an act changes the very coordinates of what is possible and thus retroactively creates its own conditions of possibility.”
(Slavoj Žižek, “A Permanent Economic Emergency”, New Left Review 64, July – Aug 2010, page 85)
I think the words of German president Merkel “And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed” is the beginning of the new era that is a foresight future of Europe.
“The inter(s)a(n)ction of third individuations” is a work within a city-wide participatory art-research project using the digital, physical and human infrastructure of a festival, including Merkel’s manipulated speech in background and a “silent” dance event and a declaration of a possible different foresight.
The project aims for a “silent” dance event with 100 – 1000 volunteer participants with own free chosen playlist during 13:14 minutes, intends even for exhibit of those participants own reflections upon Merkel’s speech and their detailed playlist on website.
Process:
To find participants in Thebes through help and open calls from voluntary groups that works within anti racism, for future multi cultural European societies. The call will inform about the project; “silent” dance event, recording of own reflections and publishing playlists.
A comprehensive lab-working with individual recordings of the participants reflections of Merkel’s manipulated speech, and the playlists that participants will choose to listen with their own mp3/4 player with headphones while they dance in “silent” event.
The actual process will occur in a crowded square of city on the dates of the festival. Merkel’s manipulated speech will be on speakers, running gradually slowing, while the participants dance “silent”. The participants will be close-up recorded by moving cameras and the square will be recorded by multiple stable cameras during those 13:14 minutes.
The interactive presentation of the project on its own website will be available close after the date of performance. The website gives all visitors possibility to enter the different pages to check all participants reflections and playlists with their own cursors.
“At the external level, the immigrant has to rediscover the acceptable limits of interpersonal space. The extent of physical contact, spatial proximity and psychological intimacy becomes a matter of renewed psychosocial negotiation and practice. More important, the immigrant finds himself “too far” from his country of origin, a distance that he, like the practicing phase toddler, might greatly enjoy for some time. Sooner or later, however, the anxiety of having exceeded the symbiotic orbit surfaces. The immigrant’s ego loses the support it had drawn from the familiar environment, climate, and landscape—all unconsciously perceived as extensions of the mother. “Attempts at restoration of such ego support may lead the immigrant to seek a climate and ethnic surrounding much like his original, and may become involved in a lifelong attempt at symbolic restitution of his motherland”.
(Salman Akhtar (1995), “A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, And The Psychoanalytic Process”, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 43:1051-1084)
“This is why Lacan’s formula for overcoming an ideological impossibility is not ‘everything is possible’, but ‘the impossible happens’. The Lacanian impossible-real is not an a priori limitation, which needs to be realistically taken into account, but the domain of action. An act is more than an intervention into the domain of the possible—an act changes the very coordinates of what is possible and thus retroactively creates its own conditions of possibility.”
(Slavoj Žižek, “A Permanent Economic Emergency”, New Left Review 64, July – Aug 2010, page 85)
I think the words of German president Merkel “And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side-by-side and to enjoy each other… has failed, utterly failed” is the beginning of the new era that is a foresight future of Europe.
“The inter(s)a(n)ction of third individuations” is a work within a city-wide participatory art-research project using the digital, physical and human infrastructure of a festival, including Merkel’s manipulated speech in background and a “silent” dance event and a declaration of a possible different foresight.
The project aims for a “silent” dance event with 100 – 1000 volunteer participants with own free chosen playlist during 13:14 minutes, intends even for exhibit of those participants own reflections upon Merkel’s speech and their detailed playlist on website.
Process:
To find participants in Thebes through help and open calls from voluntary groups that works within anti racism, for future multi cultural European societies. The call will inform about the project; “silent” dance event, recording of own reflections and publishing playlists.
A comprehensive lab-working with individual recordings of the participants reflections of Merkel’s manipulated speech, and the playlists that participants will choose to listen with their own mp3/4 player with headphones while they dance in “silent” event.
The actual process will occur in a crowded square of city on the dates of the festival. Merkel’s manipulated speech will be on speakers, running gradually slowing, while the participants dance “silent”. The participants will be close-up recorded by moving cameras and the square will be recorded by multiple stable cameras during those 13:14 minutes.
The interactive presentation of the project on its own website will be available close after the date of performance. The website gives all visitors possibility to enter the different pages to check all participants reflections and playlists with their own cursors.
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