Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu
Angelus Altera
Performance
7 hours
In collaboration with Salt Beyoğlu and Performistanbul.
Advisor: Simge Burhanoğlu
Costume Designer: Mert Yemenicioğlu
Ali Emir Tapan, Natis fka. Hasan Aksaygın, Must Kika, İsmail İnan, Ayşe Gülru Sarpel
Salt Beyoğlu, 2022

Taking its inspiration from archival materials related to Turkey’s performance art scene in the 1990s, Angelus Altera addresses the relationality between notions of heritage and the future. To understand the ever-changing borders and boundaries of the decade, the artist first looks into the 80s and draws analogies between Turkey’s socio-politics, queer history, and performance art history. From a queer perspective, the performance investigates the hegemonic history, past and present, focusing on the concepts of visibility & invisibility, (op)pressure & ease, (en)closure & opening/coming out through the body, and opens itself into the future.