What gets lost in a translation? What can we learn from unsaid things?
And how is that silenced shaped? What do forgotten words, books, libraries and archives still tell us? Can we liberate ourselves from assumptions and pose questions instead?
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Inez Piso is currently the director of artist-in-residence and exhibition space: Hotel Maria Kapel. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Art History from the University of Amsterdam and a Master’s degree from the Universidad Autónoma Madrid. After working four years in the CA2M, Madrid, she moved to Istanbul where she participated in the IKSV Research Programme with the HüzünProject in 2018. She worked for After the Archive? an initiative that gains attention to silenced archives and questions the role of archives in the creation of public memory in Turkey. She likes to curate exhibitions in unexpected spaces, like an archival box that once belonged to Ulises Carrión: No Todo ~ Niet Alles or the public ferry that crosses the waters of Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Ferry Festival. In 2021 she became the artistic director of Hotel Maria Kapel HMK: an exhibition space and an artist-in-residence programme located in a 17th century chapel.
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Sessiz dans: dile bir alternatif olarak dans
Silent dance: dance as an alternative to language
Sessizlik her zaman mevcuttur. Cümlelerimizi tamamladığımızda veya gözlerimiz, kitabın bir bölümünün sonuna gelip, sayfanın altındaki boÅŸ bölümle karşılaÅŸtığında… Bir sözcüÄŸü diÄŸerinden ayırdığımızda ve özellikle de anlatmakta zorlandığımız, sözcüklerle ifade edilmesi imkansız olan bir ÅŸeyi vurgulamak istediÄŸimizde… Sessizlik, dilin sınırını bulduÄŸu yerde baÅŸlar. Fakat sessiz filmlerde olduÄŸu gibi, dilin alternatifleri sayısızdır. İki kiÅŸi dans ederken, her seferinde sessiz bir diyalog doÄŸar. Bu herkese açık atölyede Inez Piso, danstaki sessizliÄŸi dinlemenin ve dudaklar sessizliÄŸe büründüÄŸünde dansın hangi alternatifleri yaratacağını görmenin yollarını araÅŸtıracak.
Silence is always present – either when we finish our sentences or when our reading eyes hit that blank part of the page just beneath the ending of a chapter in a book. It is present when we separate one word from another and especially when we want to emphasize something that cannot be said, those things impossible to express with words. Silence begins where language finds itslimits. But just like in silent films, the alternatives for language are endless. Every time two people dance, a silent dialogue is born.
In this open workshop, Inez Piso will investigate the many ways of listening to silence in dance and will show what alternatives dance can bring when silence falls on our lips.
Workshop
Akbank Sanat Merkezi, Dans Stüdyosu, 6.kat
Istanbul
16 December 2017



Slient dance


