You are warmly invited to an evening of performance and listening with Edge of the Game by Labjure and Review by Jazmina Figueroa and Elif Satanaya Özbay.
Labjure presents her new work, Edge of the Game with stage design by Maria Jooyoung, who explores the conceptual fields of habitat through sculpture and context-specific installations. “At the edge of the game, she holds her breath. Looks down, learns to jump, lays new ground, defies the rules. Here, at the edge, it just might work”.
Review is a performative reading and process that began at the end of 2023. Jazmina Figueroa and Elif Özbay initiated the project to situate their works with one another and within the realms of evaluation, critique, appreciation, study, and assessment. Figueroa and Özbay use the review as a framework to think beyond cursory glances, and demand a second or third round of contemplation – focusing on what is lingering and deserves a once-over. The subject, idea, theme, or topic in their works is assessed in front of an audience, becoming recast, refashioned, and redone after each successive reading via performative. This iterative approach acts as a process of thorough scrutiny, unfolding, and coming-to for the artists.
The performances will be in English.
Labjure is a Berlin-based sound and performance project. Her compositions guard moments of frenzied reveries and murky currents of psychedelic pop, drone and noise. Through poetic recitals, immersive soundscapes and determined rhythms, she attempts to capture or preserve instances, inadvertently altering or distorting their origins. With the intent to orchestrate visceral responses with precision, she invites introspective and hallucinatory listening.
Jazmina Figueroa is a Berlin-based writer. Her work appears in print, sound recordings, reading performances, staccato-esque written works, and other artistic and essayistic productions.
Elif Satanaya Özbay is an Amsterdam-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses performances, installations, videos, and essays. Informed by an early immersion in cinema, Özbay employs the horror genre as an intellectual scaffold to deconstruct and reimagine the mechanics of suspense. By intertwining pop culture references with Circassian mythology, she constructs intricate, liminal spaces that interrogate the dialectics of memory, displacement, and the uncanny. Finding intuitive and odd ways of archiving personal and historical elements, Özbay experiments with site-specific works in which readymades and texts find each other.
This evening also takes place within the context of Tongue Twisters, a program consisting of multiple appointments dedicated to the lecture performance organised by Lisa Andreani, Valerio Di Lucente, and Adrienne Drake.