Gonca Gümüşayak #01

Turkey

Headless Breath

'Headless Breath' is an underwater-dance film connecting with the concept of impossible breath we try to receive from the Nature, that we put ourselves into bubbles of pollution that we make ourselves live in. We will drown in our garbage if we do not use our mind wisely to protect the Nature. It also has a metaphor of a mirror effect of a pure body aesthetics without a head. It is an attempt to have the breath without showing it, before drowning.

Video Credit: Zekiye Buğurcu, Photo Credit: İlyas Hayta, Performance: Gonca Gümüşayak

Slaughtering the Last Breath

“Slaughtering the Last Breath” is an Action for Climate for "Space for Nature"

Photo credit: İlyas Hayta Performance: Gonca Gümüşayak

Space: K2 Urla Nefes Alanı, İzmir

Co Production: Daire Konuk Sanatçı Programı, 2020

Slaughtering the Last Breath

“Slaughtering the Last Breath” is an Action for Climate for "Space for Nature"

Video credit: İlyas Hayta Performance: Gonca Gümüşayak

Space: K2 Urla Nefes Alanı, İzmir

Co Production: Daire Konuk Sanatçı Programı, 2020

Distorted Breath

It is a distorted breath, an attempt to have the breath without showing it, before drowning, upside down.

Photo credit: Gonca Gümüşayak - self portrait, 2018, Verscio

Woman Running with the River

Poster of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, performer: Valea Völcker, Graphic Edit: Silvia Sabogal.

Woman Running with the River- The Myth of the River

Women Running with the River- Reflection

Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performer: Valea Völcker

Woman Running with the River- Reflections

Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performer: Valea Völcker, Graphics Edit: Poyraz Gözde Gümüşayak

Woman Running with the River- self portrait

Self portait - Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performer: Gonca Gümüşayak

Myth of the River- Run with the River

Self portait - Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performer: Gonca Gümüşayak

Run with the River

Self portait - Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performer: Gonca Gümüşayak

Women Running with the River- The Myth of the River

Photo shoot of "Woman Running with the River- the Myth of the River" dance-theatre and dance film production (2019) at Accademia Teatro Dimitri- Switzerland.

Photo: Gonca Gümüşayak, Performers: Gonca Gümüşayak, Lia Schädler, Chloé Schach

The Myth of the River- underwater film

“Woman Running with the River”- The Myth of the River

This film is made for a background scenography for stage dance-theatre piece of Gonca Gümüşayak
Accademia Teatro Dimitri - Master of Arts in Physical Theatre, final piece

The Myth of the River- Underwater film

Swimming Painting

From the rehersals of Headless Breath, seethrough reflections of water. Am I a fish or a swimming painting.

Performance Gonca Gümüşayak,
Photo by : Eyhan Çelik 2020, K2 Urla Nefes Alanı, İzmir