Waiting For a Subtext, 2019
Durational Performance
Diren Demir
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“Waiting: to stay in a place, stop until something happens, ends or someone or something comes.”
“Waiting For a Subtext” reveals the process of completing an unfinished work. Diren sends the subtext of the performance to the “191” numbered mail box and waits for it near by the postbox. A letter and a postman are made an object of expectation and desire. Thus, the nature and levels of the motivation of waiting are explained and presented.
Addiction to the subtext and background of “durational” performances are discussed. Subtext becomes the object of desire for completing an incomplete performance job. In the course of the vivid process of living around a chair, the artist also aims to turn into a lonely figure that integrates with the texture of the street and the city.
Diren Demir 