“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.
Context: Science Day
Venue: DE KROOK, Gent
Date: 26
th November 2023.
Duration: 60 minutes
Languages: Turkish, Dutch, English.
Text: “Rise Through Silence” by
Çiğdem y Mirol
Text Tranparency into Dutch: Çiğdem y Mirol & Nomi Van Vaerenbergh, poet
Text Transparency into English: Çiğdem y Mirol & Peter J.Russels, poet
Music: “Liebestraum” by Frans Liszt & “Elegie” by Rachmaninoff & “Strawberry” by Nils Frahm & Improvisations.
Musicians: Carlo de Kock (piano), Marius Broucke (piano), Kari Pernu (piano), Xavier Delagrange (piano)
Curated by: Çiğdem y Mirol.
Created by: All the names mentioned in this page.
Projected Movies: Daydream Films “Pigments” and “Chalks”, showing Çiğdem y Mirol performing, shot by the film maker Eléonore Coyette, music on the video is “Inks” by Aes Dana.
Videos by: Bram Braet
Outcome: 2 paintings/drawings of 110cm x 220cm by Çiğdem y Mirol.
Outcome: Digital Exhibition (under editing) of all the whole event to be shown at DE KROOK in Spring 2024.
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 brought together all the aspects all of Bookperformance in 3 co-created words which constitued the 3 sections of the event.
1. Bookperformance : “What is Bookperformance?” & Who is Çiğdem y Mirol?
Introduction Speech.
2. Transparency: Sound and rhythm of the word alongside its meaning in the world.
Transparency Performance in TR & DU & EN.
3.
Synesthesia: Seeing the sounds, hearing the colors.
Live Painting Performance & Live Piano Perfromance.
Read about it:
Bookperformance & The Music of Life
Transparency in Bookperformance
Please visit instagram detailed audio-visual documentation: @bookperformance