Death and Resurrection Play, 2024
Art and Performance Research Studies Final Exhibition: Yes, and (…)
performance and installation – 24&25 May, 2024 – NEVERNEVERLAND, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
In Yes, and (…), a group from the Art & Performance Research Studies Master (2022-2024) at the University of Amsterdam present a glimpse into their artistic research projects. The artists experiment with ways of translating their research into performances, moving images, and material formats. Through their diverse practices, immediate bodily experiences emerge as a common theme, and intersubjectivity becomes a space for understanding possible ways of interacting with the world.
pırıltı onukar’s work is an experience to be shared. one might call it a durational performance, a non-event, a ritual or play. it invites its audience to participate.
Bocuk, 2023
Art and Performance Research Studies: Midterm Exhibition
A ritualistic conversation between my former performative practices and this new journey that I am embarking on as an artistic researcher at UvA.
Edirne, Turkey: On the coldest night of the year, the evil Bocuk spirit lingers, out there to haunt the villagers and kill their cattle. The villagers offer pumpkin to the spirit to keep her away from the cattle. They huddle together in their homes, playing games, chatting, and sharing food so that they can get through this coldest night together.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands: On this dark night of my soul, the midterm exhibition lingers to haunt me, for I am at the tip of my research iceberg and am daunted by the vastness of the knowledge that awaits. I am the Bocuk spirit and I am the villagers; I haunt while I make my offering to ward myself off; and deep inside BG2 we shall huddle together playing games while we chat and share food.
27th, 2021
For my 27th birhday in 2021, I threw a massive solo party where I walked the thin line between my understanding of self-fulfilment and of complete delirium climbing the hills of Phokaia in a self-tailored costume, dancing, singing, blowing pastel-drawn candles and hopping around with the children and the stray dogs from town. Happy to be born!
Pipnik, 2017-2018
solo picnics on asphalt
“Pipnik” is a series of solo performances that adapt the cross-culturally recognizable form of “picnicking” into the urban ecosystem. It follows the arc of a mundane epic story, using the intra-cultural concept of a “picnic”: common activities such as feeding, resting, play and dance. by bringing these familial activities into unfamilial public spaces, the pipnicker invites the audience to reimagine their habitat, and offers a leeway into finding joy and compassion in the shared discontent that human beings feel communally in the cityscape.
