“Not even silence belongs to us anymore,” Asli Erdogan

 

Room installation and performance for the main hall of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in 2017 during the ILB

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First, for the main hall of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, I spray-painted portraits of Asli Erdogan and Deniz Yücel onto rolls of paper affixed to the main wall of the foyer.

 

I also hung T-shirts on the wall featuring texts by authors who had been threatened in Turkey.

 

In a performance lasting several hours, I sat in a wooden cage and recited passages from Asli Erdogan’s book, “Not Even Silence Belongs to Us Anymore.”