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