(Stage at the Museum – Eyes Hear, Ears See), Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, 2024
The program opened with two works that interrogate the place of art in modern life Ama and Bana Kimse Ne Olduğunu Anlatmadı (a Turkish adaptation of NippleJesus by Nick Hornby) both addressing the relationship between art and the individual with humour and critical sharpness, and both reaching beyond the visual to engage multiple senses simultaneously.
The second day brought two simultaneous adult workshops foregrounding listening and presence, followed by Mahallemiz Eşrafından on the main stage; a story of growth and learning woven through with music. The final day opened as a full festival, with separate performances for babies and for children, a sound painting workshop, and an interactive sound installation built from found objects by Serkan Aka. The day closed with a shared outdoor dance experience, audiences listening through headphones to music composed especially for the occasion, before the evening's main stage performance Baba (a Turkish adaptation of The Father by Florian Zeller) tender and searching piece about a father-daughter relationship and the temporal journey of memory.
The program concluded with Parrhesia 2, a performance foregrounding moving bodies alongside text in dialogue with the audience, and Geçen Gün, a work that resists easy categorization, at once concert, dance piece, and performance; two figures who continuously encounter, cross, and collide without ever truly seeing one another: a score that shifts between disquieting cacophony and mesmerizing stillness, staged against a real Istanbul backdrop.
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