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2020

Leman S. Darıcıoğlu’s 2020 work The Visit, produced for the Istanbul part of HIV Stories: Living Politics, is added to the online archive of EUROPACH.

Leman S. Darıcıoğlu’s performance documentation video Complete Incomplete is made available for 24 hours on Bilsart’s YouTube channel and on the artist’s page in the exhibitions section of Bilsart’s website.

An online art talk accompanying the screening will take place on 27 May 2020 at 18:00 via Zoom. Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu will be joined by Simge Burhanoğlu and Azra İşmen from Performistanbul, who curated the project, and Gülbin Eriş, who documented the process. Together, they will discuss the creation and content of Complete Incomplete, as well as their experiences throughout the month-long performance.

Speakers: Leman S. Darıcıoğlu, Simge Burhanoğlu, Azra İşmen, Gülbin Eriş

22–24 May 2020, 10:00–18:00 Berlin time

As part of Performistanbul’s Stay LIVE at Home programme.

Dear Stranger consists of online and offline parts. During the first, live-streamed part, Leman writes unique letters to strangers for eight hours a day. After the three-day live performance, they go out into the streets to distribute the letters through letterboxes and public surfaces. The work is an invitation to rethink emotional solidarity and non-virtual ways of connecting in the “new normal”.

May 2020

In this time of isolation and physical distance, Genco Gülan invites the artist to the online exhibition Friends of the Museum. Curated by Genco Gülan, the exhibition brings together artists’ self-portraits and/or short videos about what they do during quarantine.

14 March – 10 April 2020

For the Istanbul iteration of HIVstories: Living Politics at Dramaqueer, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu produces a performance work titled there / not there, inspired by Murtaza Elgin, Turkey’s first publicly known person to die from AIDS-related complications. The exhibition explores how politics and life narratives in HIV/AIDS activism are entangled across different countries, communities and regions.

March 2020

The artist’s short documentation of the early work Who Has Come, Who Has Gone will be screened in Enduring Turkey: performance videos from Turkey and its diaspora at Live Art Development Agency, London. The programme brings together endurance-performance documentation from Turkey and its diaspora, focusing on conditions trans, queer and feminist subjects endure in Turkey’s current political climate.

2020

The artist is part of Almost There, the digital exhibition of British Council Turkey’s Museum Without Walls, with the photo documentation of their work a childhood tale from the dark. The exhibition is curated by Seyhan Musaoğlu, Tatianna Kochubinska and Teona Burkiashvili.

8–18 January 2020

The artist is going to participate in Venice International Performance Art Week Co-Creation Live Factory Prologue II. The performances are going to open to the public on 15–18 January at Palazzo Mora in Venice.

25 December 2019, 18:30

Bilsart Art Talks – Performance Archive Video Screening and Interview

Following the first screening of the performance documentation video, Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu gives a talk with curators Simge Burhanoğlu and Azra İşmen from Performistanbul together with Gülbin Eriş, who provided the documentation of the process. The discussion addresses the creation and one-month performance process as well as performance curation and documentation.

28 September 2019

The artist is going to perform as part of Future Ritual festival on 28 September at Kunstraum, London.