‘When one of us remembers who we really are,
all of us remember’
Pickle Bar, Berlin
︎︎︎Link to show
Curation: Misal Adnan Yıldız
Host: Anastasia Marukhina
Durational Performance, Dramaturgy, sand timer, matches, blanket : Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu
Dialogues: Sarah Martinus
Images/Archival: Berk Ayakka
Poetic writing practices for spoken word dialogue,
Immateriality, Solidarity, Collective Liberation
Depth Mediation, Ceremonial Research
Launch of “Auditions for An Unwritten Opera”, a new publication by Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Badenrevisits the 2023 experimental exhibition on the multifaceted work of British-born, Australian-Turkish Cypriot artist Mutlu Çerkez (1964–2005), curated and edited by Misal Adnan Yıldız. By upcycling existing materials, the publication gives new life to the question of how we remember exhibitions after they end.
The evening unfolds as a rehearsal for a visual reading of the book, developed in collaboration with Berlin-based queer artist Leman Darıcıoğlu, whose performance—built from earlier works and props—channels Çerkez’s idea of rehearsal as a shared process. A conversation between Sārāh Mārtinus and Yıldız on shadow work, creativity, and the collective gaze anchors the event, alongside a screening of Raskol’s Axe (2013) by the collective İyi Saatte Olsunlar featuring the late activist Boysan Yakar, and scores from a recently cancelled performance program. Berlin-based artist Berk Akkaya is invited to rethink how we remember, save, and document performance-based queer works.
📌 In collaboration with Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
This work is supported by a much longer term Research Practice called ‘Kinship & Contradiction’:
︎︎︎check the spiritual concepts of the research-in-praxis here.
︎︎︎go to the research outcomes: intro zine video & modules (coming soon, on-demand) here.
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Exceprts of Dialogue from Pickle Bar:
‘Relational remembering is wound to wound.
Who will bend, when the mutable won’t?
How do I articulate the space(s) inside a divide?
How do we call for an articulation of the spaces inside us, that divide us from ourselves?
There is a hum, a whisper, a scream, a silence…
Learn how to protect and speak for, the wind, and when the time comes, bring it to water*.
It is such a perfect arrangement, for wisdom to hide away in death*. Although this night darkens the spirit, it illuminates and fills her with light*.
Within every thread of being, every fibre of reality unwoven:
Transformation IS.
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- *quotes taken from Sarah’s research-in-praxis; a meeting place of a council of Earth Wisdoms, 2025.
*Malidoma Somé
*Peter Kingsley
*St John Of The Cross
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Durational Performance, Dramaturgy, sand timer, matches, blanket : Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu
Dialogues: Sarah Martinus
Images/Archival: Berk Ayakka
︎︎︎Image credit; Matter Of, “Auditions for An Unwritten Opera”
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‘Discern the fault lines between ambiguity and your bypass. Distance. Your bypass is always there, because privelidge is always there, because comfort is always there, because limit is always there.... No edges, no centre, the centre of psyche is everywhere. What kind of service does perspective offer?’
- Notes from Sarah, June 2025