„Hotel Tarantula“ | by Özgür Erkök Moroder
Interactive Stage Installation, 2014 | artificial hair, wire and glue
Opening: August 10, 2018, 8.30 pm | the artist is present
rfrm turns in its #2 to Hotel Tarantula, a hair jungle – and brings a moment of uncanny intimacy to the passing strangers in the street.
The object was made by Özgür Erkök Moroder as a stage design for the theatre play “Blanche”, an interactive solo performance based on “A Streetcar Named Desire“ by Tennessee Williams, directed by Shlomo Lieberman. The title „Hotel Tarantula“ is a quote from the play. The main figure Blanche denigrates the hotel „Flamigo“ – where Blanche stays before she moves to Stella and Stanley – as „Hotel Tarnatula“. In the solo performance, the stage design brought two different places together. While everyday objects that Blance use are from Stellas flat, besides we see giant branches made of hair suspended from the ceiling, reaching out to every corner of the stage. It resembles to a spider as well as a root of a tree. Forming the roof of the whole stage – the stage where Blanche happens.
Özgür Erkök Moroder (1981, TR) It studied art, design and music. Multidisciplinary artist works on gender and everyday-life politics, produces performance, costume design, drawing, music and video. Member of art collective Ha Za Vu Zu (Istanbul). Realized many performances, workshop projects, collaborations and participated to exhibitions and biennials. Performing synthpunk concerts as „sesperisi“. Since 2012 lives in Berlin, works at Apartment Project-Berlin as freelance Performance event coordinator. (selection) IAAB Residency Program, 2010, Basel, CH; Touch Amplifiers, ADK,’18, Berlin; Mother Tongue, Buskerud Kunsenter,’16, Drammen, NO; Zombie and Dummy, Soho in Ottakring, Wien, AT,’14; Laufstaek-in, Maxim Gorki Theater Studio R, ’16, Berlin; What is queer today, NGBK,’14,Berlin
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