Selin Davasse
At Your Service (2023)
Selin Davasse, At Your Service (2023), performance, photo: steirischer herbst / Wolf Silveri
Photo: Joseph Kadow
Why is her glass empty but her schedule so full? Selin Davasse’s intimate performance for herbst cabaret confronts art world power relations. In a series of toasts, she explores the fluctuating tensions between guest and host. Glasses clink in the name of criticality, and strangers come together to drink to fairness, held hostage by the hostess and her wine-dark humor.
Selin Davasse (1992, Ankara, Turkey) is an artist whose research-based performance practice repurposes disparate literary and performative techniques to envision and enact the ethics of alternative pasts, presents, and futures. Composed of narrative and sonic textures, her work condenses systems of thought into intimate feminine expressions and presents them in song or speech, often with playful and participatory layers that form hospitable relations with the audience. Recent performance contexts include Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara (2023); Radicants, Paris (2023); and The Fairest, Berlin (2023). She lives in Berlin.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of SAHA
14.10., 22:00
15.10., 20:00
Forum Stadtpark (basement)
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz ♿
18/14 euros per evening
Duration: 45 min.
In English
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23
With the kind support of SAHA
