Groundbreaking Performance
Future Events
Black Water (2010)
In a boat on the water in the darkness with a nagging feeling that you've forgotten your...what...that thing, you know...what's it called? Fame, anonymity, activism and apathy.
A comedy inspired in part by the darker poetry of Cesare Pavese, lesser known photos of Mario Giacomelli, tragic music of Giacomo Puccini, the keen investigations of reality and illusion of Tadeusz Kantor, and the future history of site-specific performance possibilities, Black Water is dark cynicism that lights fires.
Self Portrait...For Now
Gülgün Kayim will direct Self-Portrait...for now, an eight-character site-specific performance installation about memory and identity. Mining her own history as a Turkish Cypriot forced to immigrate to the United Kingdom due to violence at home, Kayim will also draw on interviews with members of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot Diaspora while creating this piece.
Self-Portrait...for now is the third in a series of installations by Kayim that are both explicitly formal in the way they respond to their locations and imbued with a deep sense of history and political currency and dislocation. When complete, Self Portrait...for now will be presented 
along with her two preceding works as a trilogy of site-specific performance installations.
Created with funding from Creative Capital Foundation . This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts