BODIES THAT WAVE / WAVES THAT EMBODY

2023-ongoing

Bodies that Wave / Waves that Embody
2023-ongoing
Series of video Installation & Lecture Performance
Print on fibre paper, 268 x 40cm, 3 Ed. + 1 A.P.

Based on the questions “How to perform a wave?” and “How to become a wave?” Mimiko invites the audience to explore the similarities between the rhythmic and fluid movements of waves, which are in a constant state of motion and change, and the rhythmic and fluid movements of the human body. Through the performative reading, Mimiko assumes that intentions can spread like waves, traversing time and space, and she aims to make the various waves traversing the human body visible by tracing their marks in water-bodies. “Bodies that wave / Waves that embody” draws attention to this correlation and pursues the question “What does it mean for the human body to be a wave?”

The first of the performative reading series was held in September 2023 as part of “Akan Beden Performans ve Konuşma Dizisi,” the second one in January 2024 at Galerie Analix Forever/Geneva and the third in June 2024 at Pilot Galeri/Istanbul.

bodies that wave
waves that embody
dalgalanan bedenler
bedenlenen dalgalar
les corps qui deviennent vagues
les ‘corps-vagues’
les vagues qui prennent corps
waves come
waves go
let them come
let them go
gentle waves
monster waves
ever-unfolding
silent waves
dead waves
those who died with the waves
waves as a map
waves as a feeling
becoming each and every wave
ocean waves
sound waves
electromagnetic waves
gravitational waves
seismic waves
pandemic waves
heat waves
migration waves
feminist waves
waves roll
crash
break
transgress
cities,
bodies,
memories,
wiped out
waves of intention
waves of separation
embodied waves
my waving body
drifting in the waves,
sinking, 
rising
je crée des vagues,
avec mon corps, 
dans mon corps.
je veux devenir cette vague
qui perpétuellement s’en vient
qui éternellement s’en va
toujours en mouvement
mais singulièrement à chaque fois.
une vague d’intention me frappe,
une intention posée pour battre,
pour se battre, pour me battre,
pour devenir forte
pour vaincre,
ne pas être vaincue
éviter le danger
se protéger
est-ce peut-être ce la signification de cette intention?
un coup,
de poing, de pied
explose dans dans mon corps
une vague de choc se propage
à travers mes os, ma peau, mes cellules adipeuses, mes nerfs, mon foie,
tout fluctue.
la transmission de cette intention,
me renverse,
me retourne à la position fœtale.
PERFORMANCE PHOTOS

Photo courtesy from left to right: Uğur Cinel, Emre Tarduş, Barbara Polla

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