Interventions on Frequency: AN(A)KARA by Göksu Kunak

• Location: Caring Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, ground floor
• This event is free of charge
• No registration required

«Intervention on Frequency» is a performance series focusing on sound practices and asks the question: What happens when body and sound meet? Works that represent various positions on pressing issues around race, gender, and sexuality are shown.

Welcome to a degenerated utopia, a ticket to a society between times – and the losses it entails: AN(A)KARA is a sci-fi TV variety show hosted by Gucci Chunk a.k.a. Göksu Kunak that explores Turkey's late modernity with a particular focus on the city of Ankara, and the bodies of the neoliberal TV hosts that are like monumental statues as they embody nationalist ideologies, serving as instruments of propaganda. AN(A)KARA aims at toppling the statue of the young and athletic NEW MAN and replacing it with shapewear underwear. The performance also explores the shift in a concept of time: from kısmet, the idea that fate predetermines a person's path, to the clocked fast pace of modernity and the friction in between.

In AN(A)KARA memories and confusions of a Muslim child appear as voices and objects speaking from a past of the 1980s and 1990s. While the performance gives an overview of this distinctive era of Turkey, Göksu Kunak simultaneously addresses the clichés and clashes about the East-and-West and the ever-present (self-)censorship.

AN(A)KARA is a production by Göksu Kunak in coproduction with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe.

Göksu Kunak (Ankara, 1985) is an artist, researcher and writer based in Berlin. Göksu’s interest lies in queer methodologies (especially chronopolitics) and hybrid texts that deal with the performative lingo(s) of contemporary lifestyles as well as non-Western/unorthodox dramaturgies.

This work was curated by Antoine Simeão Schalk and Danniel Tostes for the performance series «Intervention on Frequency» at Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst.