“The book, here and now, with its author and reader, either uttered or silent, is a performance. Bookperformance is a naked, fixed and textual body. If movement is impossible for a fixed body, to turn the impossible into the possible, it is necessary to attempt the weird and the absurd. In order to successfully attempt the weird and the absurd, you must possess not only a considerable intelligence but also an extraordinary courage for realizing and accepting the significant power of the weird and the absurd. To be able to do all these it is necessary to be a good reader”. Bookperformance Manifesto, 1/7
Event: Body & Sound of I & Eye: Bookperformance.
Venue: Hošek Contemporary, Berlin
Date: 6
th September 2022.
Duration: 60 minutes
Languages: Turkish, German, English, Ukranian.
Text: “Rise Through Silence” by Çiğdem y Mirol
Text Tranparency into German: Çiğdem y Mirol & Katrin Rux, poet
Text Tranparency into Ukranian: Çiğdem y Mirol & Alisha Kobyliak, dancer
Text Transparency into English: Çiğdem y Mirol & Peter J.Russels, poet
Curated by: Çiğdem y Mirol.
Created by: Çiğdem y Mirol & Alisha Kobyliak, dancer & inspired audience/readers
Projected Movies: Daydream Films “Pigments” and “Chalks”, showing Çiğdem y Mirol performing, shot by the film maker Eléonore Coyette, music on the video is “Alnasgh” by Huhm Verse.
Videos by: Jason Reeves
Photos by: Jason Reeves
Outcome: 2 paintings/drawings of 1.20m x 5m.
Outcome: The Audio-Visual- Textual Documentation was exhibied as digital expo one week later at
The Berlin Art Week at a bookstore.
Body & Sound of I & Eye(U): Bookperformance events showcase how a book (as an object) becomes a book in its physicality. Readers / Audience are welcome to join the performance, which is a very nature of Bookperformance that is based on co-creation. Each Bookperformance event is unique in its nature, thus most of the happening is unexpected both for Çiğdem y Mirol and the others.
This specific Bookperformance took place in a ship. The main focus was authorship and readership; how and why are inseparable from each other. This is shown by transforming the space into a time & space where the book is becoming book. From daydreams to inreference with readers. That is, papers, pencils, daydreams, paints, colours, words, sounds, writings, mannuscripts and movements are some of her tools which hold hands with the audience/readers to create this book within its own performance of becoming a book.
Read about it:
Bookperformance, an Inspiring Event
Please visit instagram for detailed audio-visual documentation:
@bookperformance
Here is the teaser: