A dream I had several decades afterwards of vivid reds and warm heads
Live Performance - installation
20 minutes
Performers: Alkmini Gkousiari Annette Rodriguez Fiorillo, Gamze Öztürk
Öykü Özgencil Valeria Moro
Narrator: Gamze Öztürk
Music: Chloë Janssens & Gamze Öztürk & Kıvanç Sert
2024 AEROPONIC ACTS ~ Chameleon Orbit
DAI Roaming Academy
Centrale Fies, Italy
Characters
Al Karısı: Annette
Umay Ana: Gamze
Shaman Sisters: Alkmini, Öykü, Valeria
With my bare feet running on hot gravel. I am longing for fertile soil. A huge lock of my hair in my mouth, torn by snakeheads. I take shelter under a tree, and suddenly I forget what I knew before. What did I forget? Snakes started whispering in my ear. “Where do you belong?” Falling further down into darkness. Where my bare feet touch the skulls of female bodies. Their voices sing from decades ago, ripped out of time. A red mirror in front of me. I see something staring at me. Flaming eyes, fringed head, carrying stolen babies in her arms. And a strange cleft between her lips, I assumed it was a smile. Al Karısı! I screamed. Am I on the other side?
AEROPONIC ACTS 2024: Chameleon Orbit
38 conversations-in-a-form.
Each act of 20 minutes offers a question as a practice of engagement.
Esteemed guest-respondents
Prologue
For the laws of gravity to be rewritten, for dark energy to be materialized, we ask how many stars a galaxy can form in a day. Particles in orbit may touch you and rotate elsewhere to touch others. Our collective body spins and camouflages. In disguise at first, to be perceived as new immediately after ~ as it absorbs the light in a myriad of color combinations. With stereoscopic vision, our eyes move outward in correspondence.
Loving would be easy if your colors were like my dreams
Red, black, white, green, red, black, white, green
Everyday is like survival
You’re my lover, not my rival
We resist and rename systems; stronger gravity by means of proximity, cosmologies to weaken all the constraints of cyclical histories; to dream liberation and the fall of empires