The Body That Moves
Performance & Lecture Program 

Platform 82 | Goethestraße 82, 10623 Berlin

26.04.2024, 19h
lecture
Erinç Seymen
Welcoming Discomfort

Platform 82 presents a performance program exploring (body) politics, colonialism, love, and destruction, where sensory experiences intertwine with political statements. The performance space requires presence: eye contact, movement, an encounter between artist and audience. For performance artists in the 1970’s, the personal was political. Invited to The Body That Moves are artists and lecturers who consider our current interactions and power relationships. How do they influence our sensual experiences? The contributions, while different in approach and form, concern the battle between exaltation of individual autonomy and acknowledgment of human dependency. 

The Body That Moves features performances, lectures and lecture performances by Heba Y. Amin, Ekin Bernay, Andrège Bidiamambu, Rose Lejeune, Judith Raum, Margarita Tsomou, Erinç Seymen and Lauryn Youden. 

Erinç Seymen graduated from Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Painting Department in 2006 and received his MA from Yıldız Teknik University Art and Design Faculty, with a thesis about Bob Flanagan, who continues to be an inspiration for him. During this lecture Welcoming Discomfort he will speculate on how discomfort can be utilised both in terms of artistic production and construction of imagery. How can we distinguish discomfort from feelings of shock and horror? Is it just a milder and more tolerable sibling, an aftermath of those feelings, or is it a slow-acting poison that sticks with you longer? Erinç Seymen’s articles have been published in various magazines on topics such as militarism, nationalism and gender issues. Since 2002, he has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in İstanbul, Ankara, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, London, Helsinki, Eindhoven and Lisbon.

Program by: Marjolein van der Meer & Nazlı Yayla

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