gathering works

Men and Motherhood

A sound piece by Ayşe Orhon with the contribution of Gabriel Smeets, İbrahim Quraishi, Johnny, Jurij Konjar, Maurizio and Matthias Stief.

Men and Motherhood is a 38 minutes DJ’d conversations with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, fantasizing about giving birth, post-human and what is mother, using the composition skills of contemporary dance. Men and Motherhood is created thanks to an invitation for the Radio within a Radio of Oda Projesi at radioart.zone, 27th of August 2022.   

I was invited to propose a sound work on an internet radio project around the topic of motherhood and production. Very long I struggled with the topic then finally I DJ'd a sound piece with interviews. I asked male friends / colleagues /acquaintances if they have fantasized about giving birth and breastfeed and their fantasies about kinship, other ways of reproduction and on the notion of mother.

The archived 22 hours broadcast by Oda Projesi can be listened at radiart.zone.

Also Word to a Word, a sound piece originating from a game in words raising up from Mother issues by Ayşe Orhon and Seçil Yersel appears in various ways through the broadcast.

we are going to Mostar! a collective daydreaming

By Ayşe Orhon in the frame of take me somewhere nice of Christina Ciupke and Darko Dragičević

we are going to Mostar! a collective daydreaming is a performative proposition, an appreciation of choreographic and somatic knowledge in the form of a rest, a pause, a nap.

The gesture is inspired by the early afternoon napping of my grandparents. “We are going to Mostar” was how they announced their napping -Mostar, the city which their parents had to flee during Russo-Turkish War 1877-78.

Departing from this poetic and mournful routine, I came to this invitation for a daydreaming about belonging, longing and the changing places. In this chapter we dove deep into dreams with a question: Where is your Mostar?

04 May 2022, Studio Aula, Ateliergemeinschaft Milchhof, Berlin 90 minutes

Fearless Listening

By Ayşe Orhon & Litó Walkey, with pupils of the Hector-Peterson-Schule.

Orhon and Walkey are artists working with choreography and performance in Berlin. For HAU’s HOUSECLUB residency with Hector-Peterson Schule, Orhon, Walkey and the 7th grade students will commit to an experimental playground: devising, scoring and performing micro compositions through processes that unsettle the familiar sense-making relation to spoken language. In resonance with Dadaist and avant-garde approaches to life, arts and politics, nonsense strategies will be embraced as instances of interference that bring us closer to an expanded imagination, making room for other scales of sense and sensibility.

October-December 2018 Hebbel am Ufer Berlin

Dada-oke

First Dadaist Karaoke.

Participants get to perform a song poetry example from 1932 by Kurt Schwitters, without any prior preparation. For this occasion a special karaoke file is prepared, with the text to be uttered and its specific rhythm (in this case it was Kurt Schwitters’ own performance rhythm was used) which the participants utter the text projected on the wall, to the designated rhythm.

First Dada-oke event is realized in the frame of Open Ateliers Flutgraben, December 2017, Berlin.

Further Dada-Okes are planned with a variety of Dadaist poems by Jan Hanlo, Gherasim Luca, Bernard Heidsieck, Kurt Schwitters and others to be added.

İZLEK

İzlekistanbul is four day panel realized in the frame of Amber 15’ Festival, November 2015 at santralistanbul: “Dynamics of Labour in Dance and Choreography in Istanbul: Discussing Choreographic Modes of Production In the Light of 4 Different Examples by 4 Generations of Artists”. Itiated by Ayşe Orhon, İzlekistanbul is realized by Erinç Aslanboğa, Berna Kurt, Ayşe Orhon, Funda Özokçu with the contributions of Aslı Mertan, Ekmel Ertan, İdil Kemer and many others.

The panel is a sequel to İZLEK, a weekly contemporary dance films and video showings with participation of guest artists and theoreticians at Tezgâh Bookstore/Café in İstanbul between December 2008 – June 2009.