Upcoming
In Centrum Kultury Zamek as part of “Behind the scenes of the empire”
25–31 October 2022
A Childhood Tale From The Dark will be shown at Centrum Kultury Zamek in Poznań within the curated Anti War Coalition Art programme.
Angelus Altera in SALT Beyoğlu
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18 September 2022, 11:00–18:00
Taking its departure from the 1990s archive of Turkey’s performance-art history, Angelus Altera addresses the relationality between heritage and future. From a queer perspective, it investigates hegemonic history, past and present, through visibility/invisibility, pressure/ease and enclosure/opening through the body.
Costume Designer: Mert Yemenicioğlu
Advisor: Simge Burhanoğlu
Lick the scar, enter the wound at Tropez
4 September 2022, 17:00
Performance, 33 min.
Tropez, Berlin
Lick the scar, enter the wound is an investigation by a usually long-durational performance artist into what resides in the queer body from the Global South in terms of vulnerability and strength. Combining oriental and queer aesthetics with ritualistic movement, it questions embodied resistance strategies and attempts to break down exoticisation and fetishisation of Global Southern queerness.
off to documentafifteen as a guest artist in CAMP Notes on Art Education program
11–28 August 2022
Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu participates in the CAMP Notes on Art Education programme as part of documenta fifteen, with an approach centring care as a ground for building radical politics and a scope to look at vulnerability and strength in marginalised bodies.
“As long as I can carry, As far as I can hold” at STAMP Festival Hamburg
2 July 2022, 14:45–20:45
6 hours, with Michael(a) Daoud
Platz der Republik, Hamburg
As Far As I Can Carry, As Long As I Can Hold is a long-durational performance inviting audiences into the performers’ layers of intimacy, questioning fear of intimacy, queer vulnerability, strength, communication and power dynamics.
“Looking after a rose” in “We begin to seek out dirt” exhibition at SAP Space Berlin
24 June – 16 July 2022
We Begin To Seek Out… brings together artists working through photography, performance, video and textual intervention in defence of dirt and against pristine nationalist mythologies of soil. Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu participates with looking after a rose.
“A Childhood Tale From The Dark” in Antiwar Coalition Art
2022
A Childhood Tale From The Dark receives an invitation from Tatiana Kochubinskaya to take part in Antiwar Coalition Art.
“My burden is my soulmate” in Ornamenta24 Pre-exhibitions May version at Stadt Museum Pforzheim
13 May 2022, from 19:00
My burden is my soulmate is going to be at the Ornamenta24 pre-exhibition May version. The performance will take place at the entrance of Stadt Museum Pforzheim. This time, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu collaborates with local sound artist Fırat Yıldız for the sound installation of the live performance.
My burden is my soulmate in Schwules Museum
10 November 2021
Starting from research on resistant and tender images of the marginalised body, My burden is my soulmate asks how to address grief, anger and compassion when one is an incessant target of hate and disgust, how to embrace the wound and shoulder the burden. Through extended tableaux vivant corporeality, it delves into physical and emotional limits, vulnerability, strength and care.
Performance: Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu
Performers: Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu and Anthony Hüseyin
Sound: Fırat Yıldız
SAFE HERE at Kunsthalle St Annen
15–19 September 2021, 10:30–16:30
Live performance — 5 days, 6 hours a day
St. Annen Kunsthalle, Lübeck
SAFE HERE is a critique of European immigration politics and the gaze toward immigrants from the Global South and East. The performance engages with breathing as the backbone of living, a matter of life/death and connection, revealing the body’s vulnerability and fragility while manifesting its strength.