with Göksu Kunak

Performers: Bilgesu Akyürek, Felix Beer, Gözde Güngör, Leo Luchini

7 December 24, 5–7 pm

Venue: KW, 3rd floor

No prior registration necessary, limited capacity

Göksu Kunak extends their installation “Gone with the Wind“ on the first floor of Half-Light into a walk-through performance. The work deals with the so-called Susurluk car crash of 1996, which had a lasting impact on society and politics in Turkey as it revealed the existence of a triangular network of organized crime, politics, and state.

By combining elements of fluxus, story telling, concert, stand-up comedy, tableau vivant, and dance, Kunak and their performers repeatedly rehearse the phenomenon of the crash and its resulting elements of concealment and erasure, revelation and exposure. 

The repeated demonstration of the functionality of overtrained bodies intensifies this physical tension to moments of anxiety and illustrates the crash as both a trigger for revelation and a moment of decay.

While passing through various stations in the room, Kunak revisits the imagery that this event has generated, ranging from newspaper reports to a soap opera or film. These intermingle with abstract notions of the idea of innocence in relation to loss, grief, heartbreak and psychosis.