Time to Meet: Begüm Erciyas & Matthias Meppelink
Open Studio
by
Begüm Erciyas, Matthias Meppelink
"Time to Meet" is a series of open rehearsals and discussions, a meeting place for exchange and feedback on artistic processes, this time with the artist Begüm Erciyas.
“Voicing Pieces” proposes to regard the act of speaking while simultaneously listening to one’s own voice, as a performance. One’s own voice becomes the site of the event. One’s own voice becomes a spectacle, a fascination or a surprise. Isn’t the own voice always inauthentic and uncanny? As the audience listens to their own voice in the frame of a small-size-theater-device, they experience that they have the power to act through their voice, but, more importantly, that their voice acts through them. By creating a categorical and temporal shortcut between one’s own physical action and its perception, and, by undermining the binary differences between active and passive, performer and audience, "Voicing Pieces" proposes a fragmented model of subjectivity, as well as a particular means of participation. It is the “acting" that counts, not the “acting along”.
by Begüm Erciyas and Matthias Meppelink
Begüm Erciyas
Begüm Erciyas studied molecular biology and genetics in Ankara, where she became a member of [Laboratuar], a performing arts project and research group. She graduated from the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). In 2006, she received the danceWEB scholarship and since then has been an active member of Sweet and Tender Collaborations. Begüm Erciyas was resident at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, at the K3 – Centre for Choreography in Hamburg and at Tanzwerkstatt Berlin. In 2014, she was a fellow at Villa Kamogawa / Goethe-Institut Kyoto. Her recent works include “Ballroom” (2010), “MATCH” (2011), “this piece is still to come” (2012), and “A Speculation” (2014). http://www.begumerciyas.com
Matthias Meppelink
Matthias Meppelink studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at Justus-Liebig University in Gießen between 2003 and 2008. He is a founding member of the performance group Monster Truck and works as a musician and light designer in different constellations. He regularly collaborates with Boris Nikitin, Marcel Schwald, Susanne Zaun, and Cecilie Ullerup Schmidt. He has been living in Berlin since 2008.
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