Complaint Box, 2019
Happening
Diren Demir
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The Complaint Box questions bodily autonomy, the limits of our individuality in everyday life and its contrast to the perspectives and judgments of the society. The artist camouflages themself in harmony with the texture of the street and turns into a complaint box. Placing the Complaint Box in the body carries a performative concept of every step and action in everyday life, and has an interactive function that offers participation to the people passing by.
People were invited to write their complaints to the heavy rocks and put it in the box that is hung on the artist’s throat. The content it collects is the building blocks of judgments and structured identity prisons; that is the individual’s itself. Performance reveals the fact that the individual has already been the object of other perspectives from the very beginning and the delusion of identity was built from community-created garbage.
Diren Demir 