STORIES WILL NOT MEND THIS BROKEN WORLD
What is the value of art in a world that’s collapsing?
A group of Istanbul theater artists struggle to regain their footing in the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake that devastated Turkey and Syria; Alternating between gallows humor and grief, Stories Will Not Mend explores the effect that violence on a mass scale has on those who witness it from a distance and the inextinguishable drive to create new worlds through art, even when that work feels futile.
STORIES WILL NOT MEND THIS BROKEN WORLD
Sat, Oct 25, 2024, 6:30pm
Sun, Oct 26, 2024, 6:30pm
Positive Exposure Gallery
Fri, Nov 7th, 2024, 7:00pm
Sat, Nov 8th, 2024, 7:00pm
Sun, Nov 9th, 2024, 4:00pm and 7:00pm
Brick Aux Gallery
Featuring: Orcun Koray Kaygusuz, Roberto.r.Tolentino, Francisco Arcila, Lal Ensari, Defne Ozkan
Triggerman
Are assassins born or made?
Based on real life events, a killing of the Turkish/Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007 in Istanbul.
MIA ( Four Installations)
By Catalina Florescu
Directed by Handan Ozbilgin
The human heart has four chambers which we replicate theatrically during our four multi-media exploratory installations of Mia, a play where the focus is on femininity just as much as it is on women’s healthy bodies and minds, breast cancer, maternity, and sisterhood.
Mia is part of Staging Breast Cancer Trilogy, a transnational, mixed-media project. At the beginning of the 20th century, operating rooms were called surgery theaters because they were designed in such a way that, like people attending cultural events, those in the audience could observe the body being cut open, operated on, and sewn back. Moreover, at the end of these surgeries, people applauded. Losing her breast to cancer invites Mia on a raw journey to discover the deep meanings of being a woman. Designed as a series of four installations, each with its own focus and invited guests, the artistic team invites the audience to witness realities that we have left unchecked for too long. The changeability of our theatrical concept aligns with a genuine civic theater, a consequence of our pandemic times. The artistic team believes that just as it is fundamental to have a teaching hospital, so there should be a teaching theater. When the lights in the theater are switched off, the audience continues Mia’s honest investigation into what it means to question everything until personal truths are no longer pushed aside but embraced.
This production is a part of SubletSeries@HERE: a curated rental program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as a technical liaison. This production partially sponsored by LPAC and PACE university
HERE 145 6th Ave.