PERFORMANCE ARTIST
“What Separates Us”
... is a performative practice in which the invited audience interacts, together with the performer, in the creation of a temporary imaginative buffer zone. As an extension of no one’s land, Çetinkaya Park transforms with the speed of a sunset into a common land. A meeting point, positioned in the middle, in between North and South Cyprus, in between day and night, offering a diffractive territory that allows us to emphasize and note potential reorientation(s) through simple actions.
A note:
Unfortunately, few days before the event, we had to relocate the project due to the tension created by working near the borders and the military base at Zahra Sokak’s park. This sudden change of plans raises all sorts of questions about why art can’t be performed in such places.
With this in mind, we would like to invite you to reflect together with us: what the intention to acknowledge the few centimeters of buffer zone separating us has produced, and what actually separates us.
Directed and Performed by Elias Klark
Adviced by Avgoustina Triarou, Elisavet Panagiotou and Maryam Babur
Supported by Diverse-it Arts Festival
Filmed by Mohamed Zamani
Photos by Sinan Bozkurt