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Creator, Director, Performer Silent Questions
performance parallel to Suzanne Lacy: Birlikte/Togæther exhibition for the International Day 
for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, 2025
Silent Questions is a performance conceived and directed by Ayşe Draz, rooted in participation, witnessing, and collective thinking, in direct dialogue with Suzanne Lacy’s practice.

Since the Suzanne Lacy: Birlikte/Togæther exhibition opened at Sabancı Un iversity Sakıp Sabancı Museum, until the performance date nearly 500 visitors had anonymously shared their questions on violence against women, hope, and change. Draz, together with Meliz Ergin, shaped these voices into a text, and from that text, performers gave the questions back as sound, as body, as presence. Echoing through the museum space, the questions transformed into a shared memory.
 Presented on 25 November 2025 at Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Silent Questions invited its audience into that witnessing; to become, for a moment, part of a temporary community.

The performance featured Ayşe Draz, Adil Ömer Çetindağ, Begüm Akay, Berhan Alpergin, Egemen Sorgut, Gülüm Baltacıgil Gacoin, Merve Sude İyidoğan, Meyra Ahsen Temel, and Yağmur Ruken Kahraman.

* Thanks to Özlem Hemiş, Kadir Has University Theatre Department, Timm Kroeger.

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