Score for A Long Dramatic Pause
12 silkscreen prints on gabardine fabric with accompanying performance script
36 x 60 cm each
2025
Score for A Long Dramatic Pause is a series of silkscreen-printed graphic scores, designed to be interpreted in collaboration with a new performer each time the live performance A Long Dramatic Pause is staged in a new setting. Developed through this iterative process, the performance explores strategies of resistance against far-right politics, using the act of interpretation itself as a means of articulating these ideas through movement, voice and collective imagination.
The graphic score forms the foundation of a collaborative process between myself and a solo performer, in which we engage in a series of rehearsals to interpret the notation and develop a new, site-specific choreography. This interpretive process shapes the delivery, tone and emotional register of that particular iteration of the performance, granting the performer agency and positioning them as a co-creator of the work.
Each design in the series corresponds to one of twelve vignettes that comprise the textual script of the performance. These vignettes carry titles that act as prompts for the performer (e.g. galvanize, passively resist, bend the rules), and each design is conceived as a visual counterpart to these textual cues.
When exhibited as standalone artworks, the silkscreen prints extend the essence of the performance beyond the staged event, existing as both traces and propositions for future interpretations.
Installation views: BüroSarıgedik, Istanbul, 2025. Photos by Kayhan Kaygusuz.
