Gözler Duyar Kulaklar Görür - Müzede Sahne, Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi
Eyes Hear, Ears See – Stage at the Museum, Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Eyes Hear, Ears See is a performing arts program curated and artistically directed by Ayşe Draz, presented at Sakıp Sabancı Museum as part of the Stage at the Museum series. Built in close collaboration with the museum's team, this edition, held 22–25 August 2024, invited audiences to listen to the visuality within music and to see the imagery that music sets in motion. The program brought together performances, installations, and workshops that foregrounded auditory perception and the translation of sensory experience across disciplines, transforming not only the main stage on the Fıstıklı Terrace but multiple spaces throughout the museum into distinct performance spaces.
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 humor 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 soundpainting 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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