Noble Task
Aurora I Budapest I 2015 I photo: Klaus Rózsa Miklós
Noble task was a performance about IPek’s role, as a highly educated migrant in the international cultural system. Here she is elegantly-dressed, holds a fancy handbag and has an ironing board under her arm. After installing the board, she takes an iron and a flag out of her bag. She tries to iron the wrinkled flag with her unplugged iron. Failing to do so, she packs everything together and leaves the stage. This performance was Ipek’s farewell to the Hungarian Institute in Istanbul, where she had worked as a cultural diplomat. She staged the same performance at several festivals in Switzerland. She also ironed the Swiss flag within the scope of an international program in London in cooperation with Tomas Diafas and Yiannis Pappas.