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Developed by Leman S. Darıcıoğlu upon her attendance to “Cleaning the House’ workshop organised by the Marina Abramovic Institute, the workshop “The More Real The Deeper; The Deeper The More Real” contains exercises from this programme and reflects inspirations from the Abramovic Method.

The programme will spread over seven days with four hours per day, and apart from brief directions, it will be undertaken in silence. While prolonged exercises loosen up the bodily senses, it also enables the individual to deep-dive inwards. Likewise, silence too becomes a means to allow the person to dive into their internal world and self-confront. Clarification of our inner voice will depend on how much we listen to what it says to us and how long we stay with it. To remain with what exists, to become an inner observer away from judgement and guilt feelings can provide chances to live life by protecting our inner touch as well as our connection to our centre.

During these studies, the workshops of Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu and Aslı Bostancı will be accompanied by silent walks. These walks of silence will be implemented to the programme as a daily practice focused on activating our sources of inspiration, imagination and creativity. The intention behind the silent walks is to enable the platform to look at the existent through different eyes and with curiosity and to perceive our surrounding with a new outlook.

  • We require any participants with health conditions such as epilepsy or panic attack to inform the tutors prior to the programme and let them know of the steps that needs to be taken in the case of a relapse.
  • During workshop hours any mobile phones or watches will be removed and participants will be encouraged to spend their full day without these.
  • Participants who need to take medication at certain hours will be provided with their medicine at specified hours upon informing us with times and details.  
Lecturers
This studio is part of the following program(s):

Art, Body, Space

16 June 2019 - 30 June 2019

This programme will be delivered by two artists working in the fields of dance and performance (Aslı Bostancı and Leman Sevda Darıcıoğlu) along with two curators and academics (Livia Alexander and Charlotte Kent). At the Visual Lies Studio that takes place in the first week of the program, there will be theoretical and practical exercises as well as mind opening discussions on our perception, comprehension, and production of images.