Shooting back with ‘Ayip’
This photo is a part of a series from 2012, taken by photographer Sebnem Ugural. The word “Ayip” means shame in Turkish, I take an interest in the gendered shame of Turkish culture.
Hepimiz utaniyoruz (WE ARE ALL FEELING ASHAMED)
Den allersidste dans = The very last dance
Den allersidste dans = The very last dance. Before moving to London I didnt pay much attention to my nostalgia for the Danish culture, my belonging there/to it/ feeling of being a bit outsiderish to the culture I grew up in. The culture of my schooling, the language I still 6 years away from Denmark […]
The Wall Project. The Russet. Hackney Downs, London.
THE BLACK SHEEP SPEAKS (BACK) IN BROWN (Explaining my work for the Wall-Project at The Russett Cafe in Hackney Downs:) Brown is the new black! This work is on my very early emotions on so-to-say my “second migration” to London. The words have been written with brown vinyl, as an indicator of my identity of […]
“Stereotyped” (video-installation)
“Stereotyped” (A performance research fully in progress. Therefore this should not be seen as a finished work.) Two video-loops of a performance carried out in Aarhus 3 times. The title “Stereo-typed” is a remixed hybrid-born word, ‘stereotyping and the inbuilt wording ‘typing’ indicating. stereotyping is something that actively happens to you, while you are trying […]