If any questions remain from the following information, please feel free to contact Hannah Aldinger at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).

Duration

• 60 minutes

Language

• English spoken language

Stage

• The stage is shaped like a circle and is located in the middle of the room.

Light

• The lighting situation is rather bright.
• Towards the end of the performance there is scene where an arc of light is used, casting prominent shadows.
• Video is projected onto the floor during the performance.
• At one point there is the use of fast light changes.

Sound

• The sound situation is rather loud.

Audience area

• The audience area is arranged in a circle around the stage.
• The first row of the circle is seated at ground level. Behind the first row of the circle, there are also seated grandstands on three sides.
• 2 beanbag seats bookable subject to availability
• 2 wheelchair places bookable according to availability
• The performers come close to the people in the front row of the audience at times.

Early boarding

If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.

Tickets

• Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
• Via the online ticket shop
• At the box office

You can also find more information about accessibility here.

CONCEPT, ARTISTIC DIRECTION, STAGE DESIGN Ceylan Öztrük PERFORMANCE Adél Juhász, Deborah Macauley, Ikenna Nwaogu, Ceylan Öztrük CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLABORATION Manuel Scheiwiller MUSIC Berk Çakmakçı, Mertcan Mert COSTUMES Prototypes LIGHTING DESIGN, TECHNIQUE Demian Jakob OUTSIDE EYE Cosima Grand COLLABORATION SCRIPT Merve Ünsal PRODUCTION Rabea Grand, Paelden Tamnyen

Funded by Stadt Zürich Kultur, Migros Kulturprozent Zürich, SIS – Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung, Ernst und Olga Gubler-Hablützel Stiftung, Co-production and guest performance made possible by Freischwimmen Network, funded by the Federal Government Comissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the German Association of Independent Performing Arts’ program “Verbindungen fördern”, and realized with the kind support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Thanks to Kunstgiesserei St. Gallen. Media partners: Arts of the Working Class, Berlin Art Link, Kulturplakatierung, Missy Magazine, Rausgegangen, tip Berlin, taz.die tageszeitung. 

Ceylan Öztrük is an artist who lives and works in Zurich. She completed a practice-based PhD program at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 2016, which she had started in 2014 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of the Post-Conceptual Art Practices program. She received her graduate (MFA, 2011) and undergraduate (BFA, 2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty at Anadolu University. In 2022, she received Swiss Art Award.

Some of her exhibitions and performances are Wearing the Angels, Kissing the Room (Gessnerallee Zürich, 2023); Sculpture Garden (Geneva Biennale, 2022); Matter of non (FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg, 2021); Orientalien (Gessnerallee Zurich, 2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing Tangents (Longtang Zurich, 2020); IV. Berliner Herbstsalon (Berlin, 2019); Call me Venus (Mars Gallery Istanbul, 2016).

Ceylan Öztrük opens up accepted forms of knowledge and focuses on how it was built to shift a specific flow and thus become tools of the structures of power. She aims to break the flow of information in the mainstream with a multi-disciplinary approach, offering to setup new channels that co-exist with and sometimes replace the existing ones. She creates Autotheory and employs interventions in her practice as a methodology with which she tries to transform existing situations and frameworks.