Location & Date
Ljubljana
30.08.2024 18:30 - 30.08.2024 19:45
Price
1
Organizer
Bunker, Ljubljana
Website
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Nadir Sönmez is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, actor and director. He holds a BA in Theatre from the Sorbonne in Paris and an MA from Kadir Haz University in Istanbul, where he is based. In his solo project Diyarbakır. Tourism. Romanticism. Activism., Nadir Sönmez narrates Kurdish LGBTIQ+ activism in Diyarbakır through autobiographical performance, essay film and documentary theatre. On one side, there is a gay francophone Turkish artist. On the other side there are Kurdish LGBTIQ+ activists. Sönmez talks about how networking with gay artists make him advance in his career. The titles of his three short films are all fake names of discreet gay men he dated in Diyarbakır. Inspired by their movement and their social gains, Nadir Sönmez questions his intellectual power in activism and celebrates gay culture to reclaim public homosexual intimacy.
Text, video, performance: Nadir Sönmez
Video music: Mert Kocadayı
Project counselors: Barış Işık, atalay göçer
Slovenian translation: Tadej Turnšek
75 minutes
Lecture performance is in English, partial Slovenian translation will be available on QR code.