(i) your story of me
with Aylar Dastgiri,
Su Mi Jang, Olivia Reschofsky, Katerina Bakatsaki, Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla، Shahrzad Irannejad & Ogutu Muraya
(i) your story of me is a world made by many:
setareh fatehi in a dialogue with milan vukasinovic and nilufer sasmazer initiated the invitation for Su Mi Jang, Olivia Reschofsky, Katerina Bakatsaki, Pau(la) Chaves Bonilla, Aylar Dastgiri, Shahrzad Irannejad and Ogutu Muraya to tell the story of one to the other, through dance, painting and words in and around their birth-places. The story travelled from Ui-dong to Crete to Ebes to Amsterdam to Tehran and Malindi.
more about the artists
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Once upon a time
There is
And have been
And will maybe be
the understanding, the question,
the reassurance
A time upon once
there might only be
my stories of you
And your stories of (i)
...
2023
Installation
Story World exhibition in Depo Gallery Istanbul
https://retracingconnections.org/exhibition/
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The installation “(i) your story of me” looks at dance, video and painting as languages that tell and preserve stories that might not have been told otherwise. By playing a kind of word-of-mouth game, the process paralles story telling in the culture of medieval translations within manuscript traditions, where no stable version of the text exists. The first story in this chain is inspired by the idea of longing for a land/scape of a motherland. The story travels from Ui-dong to Crete to Ebes to Amsterdam to Tehran to Malindi to Istanbul. It is passed from the first teller to the second, before traveling further down the line to be re-danced, re-painted and re-told. The work title (i) your story of me suggests the presence of the other as a core of the story of the self. The work sees dance as a landscape of languages that communicates through familiar experiences acknowledging the distance between places and contexts. As such, it explores the possibilities and impossibilities of linguistic and narrative expression.
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Installation
Story World exhibition in Depo Gallery Istanbul
https://retracingconnections.org/exhibition/
The installation “(i) your story of me” looks at dance, video and painting as languages that tell and preserve stories that might not have been told otherwise. By playing a kind of word-of-mouth game, the process paralles story telling in the culture of medieval translations within manuscript traditions, where no stable version of the text exists. The first story in this chain is inspired by the idea of longing for a land/scape of a motherland. The story travels from Ui-dong to Crete to Ebes to Amsterdam to Tehran to Malindi to Istanbul. It is passed from the first teller to the second, before traveling further down the line to be re-danced, re-painted and re-told. The work title (i) your story of me suggests the presence of the other as a core of the story of the self. The work sees dance as a landscape of languages that communicates through familiar experiences acknowledging the distance between places and contexts. As such, it explores the possibilities and impossibilities of linguistic and narrative expression.
