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Gamze Öztürk

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Gamze Öztürk (Turkey, 1987) is a Turkish performance artist currently based in the Netherlands, mainly focusing on live art, installation art, and lens-based media (film, photography, etc.) Her works predominantly explore female non-verbal languages in cultural theory. Starting in primitive times, she questions how women talk in restricted social structures. She mainly deals with visualising women's history shaped by a male gaze, focusing on body politics, ritual, narrative and hair. By investigating symbols and motifs used by Anatolian women, she explores a hidden poetic language in handicrafts such as rugs, carpets and embroideries. She uses performance to make art installations that show these ancient rituals, that have been preserved for hundreds of years. Furthermore, she uses human hair as a material that links the woman and her ancestral DNA to express femininity.

Hands-on-Hips
Hands-on-Hips - Duration: 3 hours Place: Goethe-Institut Georgien This performance took place in Tbilisi Performance Art Week 2024, in Tbilisi, Georgia. Hands-on-Hips is a durational performance along with the installation that addresses a crucial Anatolian carpet motif - a figure with hands placed on hips or waist. This manifests motherhood, fertility, and abundance, intricately tied to the Mother Goddess cult in Anatolia. The performance transforms into embodied research, unravelling the complexities of the body politic, resistance, and queerness. She embarks on a journey of queering the body, where existing female carpet motifs exchange with her own.
Museum Night at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam
Museum Night at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam - Title: Hands-on-Hips II Duration: 5 Hours 2024 During my solo performance in Museum Night at Huis Marseille, I reflect on the artworks of Tarrah Krajnak where she uses her own body, hair, and hands to reflect on other artists as well. By doing so, she reveals to poetic presence of the female body. With her artworks in the room, I will use hair as an extension of my installation. With my hair, I will create motifs on the floor which reveals the hidden meanings connected to Krajnak's making process. In the relation of my movements, I will visualize both mine and Krajnak's interest in hidden languages. Where Tarrah's finds the poetic meaning in other artworks. I use the hidden language of the Anatolian women to speak about the female body in a patriarchal society. Where these women use embroideries in their hair to speak about topics that cannot be spoken. In Krajnak's performative artwork “Black Sun” where she erases a landscape photo with her hair, the women of Anatolia see their hidden language erased from the earth. Therefore, my hair braid motifs are an act of speaking within a language that needs to be heard.
International Festival of Performing arts Museum Mazowievski in Plock
International Festival of Performing Arts Museum Mazowievski in Plock - Eli Belince / Hands-on-Hips Duration: 1 hours 2024 Museum Mazowievski in Plock, Poland The performance Eli Belinde / Hands-on-Hips is inspired by the enchanting Anatolian carpet motif bearing the same name. In her performance-installation, she is using spindles, human hair and tattoos on her body making a narrative-like structure from pre-patriarchal shamanic rituals out of Anatolia. Her performance is part of a wider research inton performative languages and ancient rituals in Eastern cultures. The performance is part of her ongoing series "Fertile Crescent," that will unfold over the coming years.
Eli Belinde Kadınlar (Women with hands on hips)
Eli Belinde Kadınlar (Women with hands on hips) - Drawing on Paper, 40X60cm, Water color, ink, coal, thread
Fertile Crescent
Fertile Crescent - Fertile Crescent 2021 Installation and Live Performance DOOResidency Summer 21, Amsterdam The Fertile Crescent is a site-specific artwork and performance inspired by Anatolian women's handicrafts, knitting, and facial tattooing. The work consists of a three-day performance with a narrative-like structure that follows the connection between things associated with women in mythological female protagonists. Three-dimensional wooden sculptures of "spindles" and "distaffs" associated with women from various cultures create a pre-patriarchal shamanic ritual space and a performance set. It deals with visualizing women's history shaped by a male gaze, concentrating on body politics, rituals, narratives and hair.
Cyclic Traces
Cyclic Traces - Cyclic Traces 2020 Live Performance Venice International Performance Art Week 2020 Co-creation Live Factory: Dissenting Bodies - Marking Time Place: European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora, Venice ​ "Cyclic Traces", is a durational performance/installation work created at the end of the residency program the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK - CO-CREATION LIVE FACTORY: Dissenting Bodies Marking Time. Moving, standing, and doing simple actions during the residency, I began to think about how the states of our minds against time can drive our personalities. Mostly, we define the past as a heavy burden on our shoulders. As long as we bear this weight, the motifs of the future will be more of the same. This performance is a ritual of understanding the motifs of my past, making peace with it, and finally lifting it off my shoulders /mind. It is the healing ritual of the artist shaman who loads her past, her present, and all labels in her hair.
Feared Body - "Hidden Body – Feared Body" is a performance that reclaims and redefines the body experienced as feminine, liberating it from the layers of objectification and concealment imposed over centuries. It delves into the fluid, unstable terrain that shapes identity, exploring the unspeakable conditions underlying the Self's formation about the Other. The performance navigates approaches, retreats, caresses, and provocations through mirroring similarities and contrasts. The aim is to free the body from the meanings imposed by societal power and rigid logic and the internalized perceptions we have come to accept as our own identities. This ceremonial dance captures the delicate process of identity formation, a painful journey that challenges boundaries and hierarchies, with the Other representing a dangerous yet undefined space where consciousness flows. So close yet distant, two women explore their bodies, create connections, break boundaries, and engage with doll-like organs made of threads and hair. These objects are charged with a magical significance, becoming extensions of their flesh—vessels for blood and fluids, carefully selected, stored, and crushed.
Hidden Body - Two days durational performance in collaboration with Carmen Lafran 2019, Mod Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey "Hidden Body – Feared Body" is a performance that reclaims and redefines the body experienced as feminine, liberating it from the layers of objectification and concealment imposed over centuries. It delves into the fluid, unstable terrain that shapes identity, exploring the unspeakable conditions underlying the Self's formation about the Other. The performance navigates approaches, retreats, caresses, and provocations through mirroring similarities and contrasts. The aim is to free the body from the meanings imposed by societal power and rigid logic and the internalized perceptions we have come to accept as our own identities. This ceremonial dance captures the delicate process of identity formation, a painful journey that challenges boundaries and hierarchies, with the Other representing a dangerous yet undefined space where consciousness flows. So close yet distant, two women explore their bodies, create connections, break boundaries, and engage with doll-like organs made of threads and hair. These objects are charged with a magical significance, becoming extensions of their flesh—vessels for blood and fluids, carefully selected, stored, and crushed.

BIG ART

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Locatie: Het Slotervaart
In samenwerking met: Ronald Bal

Join us for our collaborative project at BIG ART 2024! An interactive installation and live performance, where we share experiences of “home” together with the audience! These conversations will be stitched together during the exhibition, which creates a growing installation. The project combines the bureaucratic alienation - the papieren werkelijkheid - and the lived experiences of home. By doing so, we represent the relation of art and place, in temporary social networks coming to visit.

https://bigart.nu/

THE BLUE OF HIGH ZENITHS, Tbilisi Performance Art Week

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Locatie: Goethe Institut Georgian
In samenwerking met: Goethe Institut Georgian, Untitled Tbilisi, Women's Fund in Georgia

THE BLUE OF HIGH ZENITHS is a performance art week curated by @untitled.tbilisi / @sabrina_bellenzier , taking place in Tbilisi from 23rd to 29th of February, 2024. Centered around the ephemerality of the queer present and future within the context of rising authoritarianism and global tendencies towards enclosed identities, the event brings artists together from the Caucasus region and neighboring countries.

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