The Rehearsal & The Playbook

In the organizer's words:

PUBLIC PROGRAM 25.10.2025 16:00-20:00
WITH İrem Aydın, Zeynep Dadak & Çiçek Kahraman, Selin Davasse, Ali Miharbi, Cana Bilir-Meier, Ana Teixeira Pinto
CURATED BY STRÜKTÜR

FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair

THE REHEARSAL & THE PLAYBOOK critically examines the transforming expressive and choreographic mechanisms of authoritarian and populist movements. Taking Turkey as a point of departure, the project traces how authoritarian and populist dynamics reverberate across borders, shaping bodies, gestures, and collective imagination. Through performances, installations, and moving-image works, the program stages encounters with the tensions between obedience and refusal, intimacy and control, solidarity, resistance, and confinement.

SCHEDULE

16:00
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

16:30
Selin DavasseWhen the wolf howls on the plain, the dog's chest aches at home / Düzlükte kurt ulusa, evde itin bağrı sızlar Performance

17:00
Zeynep Dadak & Çiçek KahramanWeird Absurd Whatever Video Essay

17:30
İrem AydınThe Blue Bed PERFORMANCE

18:00
İrem Aydın, Zeynep Dadak & Çiçek Kahraman, Selin Davasse and Ali Miharbi CONVERSATION

19:00
Ana Teixeira PintoOh Man! The world ends, masculinity enduresTALK & following Q & A

16:00 - 20:00
Installed film works and live installations:
Cana Bilir-MeierA New Word (2025) & Semra Ertan (2013)
Ali MiharbiLive Eyes (2025)