Burcu Emeç

Burcu Emeç


We were awkward at first, but then it was ok                 

​10 min 50 sec
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What might it mean to collaborate with someone or something? We were awkward at first, but then it was ok prods this question with imagined collaborators taking the form of bubble wrap, memory foam, a personal fan and a plastic chair. Through a series of actions that play with anthropomorphization, utility and meta-narrative, the performance delves into the image of oneself in relation. It engages the heavy in the light and the magical in the daily, constructing and breaking codes of intimacy. We were awkward at first, but then it was ok subverts the tensions inherent in collaboration while attempting a reckoning with the function of objects in performance. 

This work was originally presented at FOFA Gallery (Nov. 2020) via a series of written scores culminating in the video performance.

Press
Hyperallergic - Eight Digital Exhibition Spaces for the Second-wave Lockdown

Credits
Premiere: November 2020, FOFA Gallery
Writing, directing, performance: Burcu Emeç

Cinematography, sound: Cedric Laurenty
Editing: Casper Wolski ​

​Supported by 
Interdisciplinary Writers' Lab - Playwrights Workshop Montreal
Alliance - Montréal, arts interculturels (MAI)
Government of Quebec and the City of Montreal as part of l'Entente sur le développement culturel de Montréal
Canada Council for the Arts
Résidences artistiques nomadiques - La SERRE - arts vivants

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