Stage Dust Archive, 2021
Video Performance & Installation
Diren Demir
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In the process of “preventing the pandemic”, each administration takes different actionsaccording to its own economic power and socio-cultural structure, but each unites with onegoal: to produce new docile bodies. Theater stages, which were ignored because they could not provide a significant power to the economic structure, became an area that Turkey overlooked among the different “protection” administrations regarding the Pandemic. While many theater institutions are about to go bankrupt, artists are also looking foralternative ways to survive and perform their art; In this process, the theater stages, which did not receive any support from the state, are getting more “dusty” day by day. In the “Stage Dust Archive” series, Diren visits various theater stages, cleans them, collects and archives the dust of the stages. The accumulated dust from different theaters is archived in different jars. Using dust as a material: this dark and difficult process that art, artist and art institution goes through is more clearly revealed.
Diren Demir 