Ceylan Öztrük
Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room
Orientation is the perception of space through the body. It is a body language, depending on the body to inhabit space. Ceylan Öztrük, who received the Swiss Art Award in 2022, focuses on the concept of orientation and invites us to experience space in a new way with the help of disorientation. The performance Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room is a narrative on the clash and meld, between the body and the building, the person and the institution, the bent and the stiff.
A text constitutes the texture of this work, expanding into the space, while an impressive stage installation creates a dreamy perception. Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room focuses on the momentum of bypassing in order to realign the orientation between bodies and constructed spaces, to create a different kind of orientation towards things. The bodies themselves become objects or sculpture, disorientation becomes an element of the body, converging the body with the building. We linger in this state in order to allow a different approach: an orientation on how we inhabit the space and how the space will dwell in bodies. The moment of losing oneself is staged in subtle nuances through purposeful disorientation.
Ceylan Öztrük is an artist, lives and works in Zürich. She completed her practice-based PhD (2016) in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul) that she initiated her subject in Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna at Post Conceptual Art Practices in 2014. She received her graduate (MFA-2011) and undergraduate (BFA-2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty, Sculpture Department at Anadolu University. She received the Swiss Art Award 2022. Some of her exhibition and performances are Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room, Gessnerallee, Zürich (2023); Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennial, Curated by Devrim Bayar, Geneva (2022); Self-specular, a moment, Galerie PhilippZollinger, Zürich (2022); Matter of non, FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg (2021); Orientalien, Gessnerallee Theatre, Zürich (2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing tangents, Longtang, Zürich (2020), IV. Berliner Herbstsalon, Berlin (2019); Oriental Demo, My Wild Flag Festival, Stockholm (2019); Call me Venus, Mars Istanbul (2016).
Credits
Concept, Artistic Direction, Stage Design Ceylan Öztrük Performance Adél Juhász, Deborah Macauley, Nimia Nwaogu, Ceylan Öztrük Choreographic Collaboration Manuel Scheiwiller Music Berk Çakmakçı, Mertcan Mert Costumes Prototypes Lighting Design, Technique Demian Jakob Outside Eye Cosima Grand Collaboration Script Merve Ünsal Production Paelden Tamnyen
With the support of Stadt Zürich Kultur, Migros Kulturprozent Zürich, SIS – Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel-Stiftung. Co-produced by the Network Freischwimmen, funded by the Federal Government Comissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the German Association of Independent Performing Arts’ programme “Verbindungen fördern”. Furthermore, Freischwimmen is supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council.
The guest performance in Vienna is a co-operation between imagetanz 2024 / brut Vienna und WUK performing arts. With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Dates & Tickets
The performance on Sun, March 24th will be followed by an artist talk.
March 2024
Choose your price category € 20/€ 15/€ 10
Choose your price category € 20/€ 15/€ 10 / *Followed by an artist talk
WUK performing arts
Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
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