8937th song (2023)
PERFORMANCE, 25 min

Since 2020, Melis Tezkan has been exploring playlists as alternative spaces for narration and their performative activation. In her new performance at Pickle Bar, the playlist becomes a sensorial space that gives form to questions of translation, interpretation, and omission. Polysemy, nonsense, and silence recompose the memories and challenges of language transcription and transliteration.

more info: https://picklebar.berlin/slurs

Song composition in collaboration with Ömer Sarıgedik.

Production with the support of Slavs and Tatars' Pickle Bar, within the framework of the PERSPEKTIVE Fund for Contemporary Art & Architecture — an initiative of the Bureau des arts plastiques of the Institut français of Germany.
Supported by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français Paris, and the Goethe-Institut, in partnership with Relais Culture Europe.

Melis Tezkan benefited from a studio at the CND Paris (Centre National de la Danse) for this project.

Thanks: Enrico Floriddia, Simone Frangi, Deniz Kırkalı, Asli Seven, Nil Yalter

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