“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, principle 1/7
Event: Body & Sound of I & Eye: Bookperformance
Place: OODI Library, Helsinki
Date: 27
th May 2023
Duration: 60 minutes
Text: “Rise Through Silence” by Çiğdem y Mirol
Text Transparency into English: Çiğdem y Mirol & poet, writer Peter J. Russels.
Text Transparency into Finnish: Çiğdem y Mirol & actress Tiaa – Mari Makinen.
Languages: Turkish, Finnish, English.
Curated by: Çiğdem y Mirol
Created by: Çiğdem y Mirol and inspired readers / audience.
Projected movies: Daydream films Elenore Coyette, showing Çiğdem y Mirol performing & Andrea Ward dancing.
Video by: Oodi technical team.
Photographs by: Elif Eren, Didem Boström
Outcome: 96 A4 size artworks on paper were created.
Outcome: The print of all the artworks were sold and with the revenue trees were planted.
Outcome: Digital Exhibition of the event shown at OODi 21th August – 3
rd September, 2023
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 was made up 3 scenes, 20 minutes each:
1. Rise Through Silence (In Turkish)
2. Rise Through Silence (in Finnish)
3. Rise Through Silence (in English)
Read about it:
Bookperformance of “The Tower of Babel”
Please visit instagram for detailed audio-visual documentation: @bookperformance