Ceylan Öztrük (Zurich)
Biography:
Ceylan Öztrük lives and works in Zurich. She questions established forms of knowledge and examines the normative aspects of knowledge production. Her auto-theoretical work, a combination of theoretical references and personal anecdotes, is expressed not only in texts, but also in sculptures, installations and performances.
She is interested in the relationship between the social environment and the structure of a space, focusing on the concepts of orientation and distance by developing specific movements that are opposed to these notions of space utilization.
Freischwimmen project:
Orientation is the perception of space through the body. It is a body language, depending on the body to inhabit space. Ceylan Öztrük foregrounds the concept orientation to reconsider spatiality by hosting disorientation. As disorientation involves becoming an object, a sculpture, 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.
While a text constitutes the texture of the work expanding into the space, a dreamy perception is created by stage installations. Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room produces the moment of bypassing, to realign the orientation between the bodies and constructed spaces, to create a different orientation towards things. Disorientation does not remain a state – it becomes an element of the body, converging the body with the building; As we stay in this moment to adjust another approach. An orientation on how we going to inhabit the space, how the space will dwell in bodies. In an everyday performance, stage is a moment of losing, in a purposeful disorientation.
Statement:
My experience with FREISCHWIMMEN was fruitful, since I was able to meet many fellow artists and curators. The residencies gave me time and space to be able to focus on my theater work and connect with various professionals to further develop my ideas.
Performances:
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June 28, 2023 – June 29, 2023Performance
Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room
- June 28, 2023 - June 29, 2023
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April 27, 2023 – May 14, 2023Residency
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- April 27, 2023 - May 14, 2023
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February 4, 2023 – February 14, 2023Performance
Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room
- February 4, 2023 - February 14, 2023
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Invitations and residencies:
Invitations
2023 brut, Vienna
2023 Rampe, Stuttgart
2023 Sophiensaele, Berlin
Residencies
2023 Sophiensaele, Berlin