Between Waves

2017 

Live Performance

Concept: Pınar Derin Gençer
Performers : Gamze Öztürk, İlgi Özdikmenli, Pınar Derin Gençer
Date: Sep 20, 2017 -  Oct 26, 2017
Place: Endless Art Taksim

© Istanbul Performance Art

https://vimeo.com/265281898

'We were all born with an umbilical cord which connected us to our mothers and this cord had been cut simultaneously with our birth. This umbilical cord is physical, psychosomatic and psychological. Human begins to search the senses of belonging and security on earth where we fall/think along with cutting this cord. This searching sometimes comes into existance in a feeling (or a moment), sometimes in a subject (or a place), and sometimes in another human’s body (or soul). This searching of the artist comes into existance in a braiding.

An English researcher named Ruppert Sheldrake asserted that people who have connections as relatives are “waves” which tie them all together and he named those as morphogenetic waves. And he also asserted that these waves are occured between people who have connections in terms of therapy and these realize as a sixth or even seventh sense or a sense of being watched. NASA determined that during war, a dog which stands on the land begins barking in an instant when her puppies which are far from her and are drown by somebody. Most of us think somebody “by coincidence” and this individual suddenly calls us or we wake up late at night with a start and think somebody who is close to us and then we learn that this individual is dead or has a severe accident. According to the artist, morphogenetic waves which are asserted by Ruppert Sheldrake begin along with cutting of umbilical cord.

Shocks, griefs, pains, drams, traumas not to be overcome, unmurned things, “tragic deaths”, “things hard to be said”, personal or familial secrets which remain as unconsummated, sometimes can continue for hundreds of years and can not be solved by past generations, can be transferred to next generations and can shape them at various, different levels, from deep inside and sometimes tragically.

“Mutual soul” of a group or a team (interpsychic) can disambiguated by various techniques; the concept of tele, situations like collective consciousness and collective unconsciousness has been enlighten by this way. These situations have been realized between spouses, family members and group members who are very close to each other and can be represented and shared. Moreno explains this like that:' A situations of collective consciousness or collective unconsciousness can not singly belong to one individual. This is always a collective ownership.' According to the artist, collective consciousness and collective unconsciousness are occured by the waves which begin along with cutting of umbilical cord.

Artist tells three sentences by the waves which are occured between the facts that Sylvia Plath who commits suicide for ending her 30 years life via oven gas and Nilgün Marmara who jumps from the balcony at the fifth floor for ending her 29 years life and the Marmara’s thesis of “the analysis of Sylvia Plath's poetry” within the context of her suicide.

In the art of performance, Ethos is the artist’s body where artist shelters. Pınar Derin Gençer, who realizes the interrelation between the place and identity with the fact of belonging, shapes this searching which becomes stronger on earth where we fall/think along with cutting umbilical cord between the waves which drop from memory to toung and the body.'

* 'I was only beating heart.' M. Proust
* 'Ey Earth like stone’s throw, I saw all your backyards!' N. Marmara
* “In the desert
I saw a creature, naked and wild.
It was crouching down and sitting 
It was keeping its heart in its own hands
It was eathing that.
I asked that: “is it delicious, my friend?”
It replied “It is bitter, bitter, ”;
“But I love it
Because it is bitter
And it is my heart.” H.Crane

Resources: Psikosoybilim, Anne Ancelin Schützenberger 
The analysis of Sylvia Plath's poetry within the context of her suicide, Nilgün Marmara