Kashmirgrau und Himmelblau
Shedhalle I Zürich I 2011 I Open Futures I Club la Fafa I curator: Nadja Baldini & Jana Vanacek
photo: Daniel Drognitz
photo: Daniel Drognitz
Kashmirgrau und Himmelblau (Kashmirgrey and Skyblue) is a migration-related performance in which IPek reads her own texts and sings folk songs. The texts are short stories titled by different colours. Every story starts with a song that is connected with the text IPek reads afterwards. As the performance is staged in an unusual combination of four languages - lyrics in Turkish, Kurdish and Hungarian, texts in German - there is an unclear part for almost every listener. This automatically puts the listeners into the position of a migrant who often feels confused about decoding the signs of the unknown. IPek is writing the stories song by song, performing each time a new chapter. This way, she creates a colour palette of feelings which will later be transformed into a book.