Category: Portfolio
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Service
Service, 2020 Live Performance for Performistanbul Diren Demir The patriarchal system which formed within our society and evolved in our home requires us to give a domestic service. The performance “Service” draws a dramatic portrait of the “groundless” / “fragile” pleasure behind the “Father” figure who has been presenting and adopting to male dominated power
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Horizontal Execution
Horizontal Execution, 2020 Video Performance Diren Demir In Horizontal Execution, Diren Demir moves steadily toward a screen until the rope around their neck fixes the body in place. The moment of suspension becomes a study of how agency is narrowed by forces that appear voluntary yet operate as constraint. The work reflects on the tension
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Devotion Ritual
Devotion Ritual, 2020 Performance Diren Demir // The Devotion Ritual, which has been an ancient pagan tradition for years, takes place in the Lagina Ancient City, which belongs to Hecate, the moon goddess. Circles are drawn as a meditative mental state and a long-term sequence of movements is created gradually accelerating. The circle form is
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Calling Back the Nature
Calling Back the Nature, 2020 Live Performance for Performistanbul Diren Demir // Kulning or animal herding call is a medieval form of Scandinavian singing often used to call livestock down from inaccessible mountain pastures. In this performance, Diren transforms and re-interprets this ancient herding call by recalling the power of nature from the rooftop. Through
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Remains of a Walked Path
Remains of a Walked Path, 2019 Polaroid Series – 14 Pieces Diren Demir Paulo Chelo’s novel “Hippie” tells the adventure of Paulo and Karla, starting from Amsterdam and going to Kathmandu. Diren took this book with them on their journey to India and read it on the opposite route towards Amsterdam. As the book tells
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Waiting For a Subtext
Waiting For a Subtext, 2019 Durational Performance Diren Demir // “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
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Confessional
Confessional, 2019 Performance Diren Demir // “Confessional” performance aims to create an interactive space in which an individual can be compassionate to themself without the need for an upper being. There is not an ordinary priest in the confessional booth, but an artist who explores their own nature and the weaknesses of humanity. What is
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Complaint Box
Complaint Box, 2019 Happening Diren Demir // 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
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Shambala Diaries
Shambala Diaries, 2019 Photo Series 10 pieces // The photograph series Shambala Diaries developed during a time when I specifically visited non-commercial and unknown locations in the Himalayan mountains of India and formed close bonds with local village people. A secret city known as Shambala, where only enlightened people can find has a meaningful part
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Changa Visions
Changa Visions, 2019 Illıstrations Diren Demir I lived for a while in a village house in Dharamshala’s village called Dharamkot, when it was time for me to leave, my next-door neighbor invited me to the Changa ritual. We greeted each other in a different dimension. In what seemed like hours, I explored the limits of
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