NO BODY - EKIN BERNAY 2024

EKIN BERNAY | DEBOUT BOOK

NO BODY, 2024
152pgs, 21x29,7 printed pages
Heavy coated cartboard cover with brilliant finish. 
Thick coated paper with mat finish

The book is about the human experience through the extremes of pain and pleasure. The film has two parts and has been performed for the camera in Istanbul. Part one ‘sit up, open your mouth’ is Ekin placing her late grandmothers tooth between her teeth. While arising questions of impermanence , bodily wisdom and organic vs plastic. The second part Ekin directs the viewer to attend the process by repeating after her the words “I live.” Each time the words are repeated Ekin is shot with a bb gun. Humans shooting humans is one of the most incomprehensible phenomenon of our species. This part looks at physical pain at the verge of life and death as an extension of fear.

EKİN BERNAY
Performance Artist, Dance and Movement Psychotherapist
She has an MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Roehampton University and has been working clinically as a DMP. She has experience in adult mental health, autism, primary schools and refugee children. In her live artwork Ekin is working towards merging the DMP findings with a wider audience through performative workshops. Her work focuses on the healing qualities of performance art. She uses text, sound and choreographic situations to direct the audience. As a dance therapist Bernay works in adult mental health and schools. Ekin is represented by International Performance Art Platform Performistanbul.

A visual collection, close to an initiation ritual and bearing the emblematic title Outstanding Performance Yielding Urgent Meanings.
Collection directed by d|b

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