biriken, This is the end, beautiful friend, 2017, Performance
Concept, installation and performance by biriken (Melis Tezkan, Okan Urun)
Music and sound design by Berk Çakmakçı, Berke Üstünkök
A scenery reminiscent of the ‘life in the future’ dioramas. There’s the two of us. With the past’s traces and the future’s predictions, we construct individual living spaces; islands of words, objects, and images.
We’re at the bottom of an abyssal pool, our legs still collide when we swim. We keep our eyes open even though they burn. Our lives are much like this. At this depth, our personal stories and fictions integrate.
We’re here and we draw our own vanitas tableaux. We are like skulls surrounded with objects in this still-life depicting mortality. There is only one thing: We know it all starts and ends here. This is both Hell and Heaven. It starts here, ends here and then starts again here, until everything ends and starts again...
This is the end/Beautiful friend/This is the end/My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end/Of everything that stands, the end/No safety or surprise, the end/I’ll never look into your eyes, again
Can you picture what will be, so limitless and free /Desperately in need, of some, stranger’s hand/In a, desperate land
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(The End - The Doors)
MONDAY MAY 15, 20:15 Istanbloom Esin Yapı
TUESDAY MAY 16, 20:15 Istanbloom Esin Yapı Repeat