Buffer Fringe 2023 Performances

7th of October 2023 | 20:30-21:30 Rüstem Bookstore About the performance: #NotI is a one-woman show about a woman in isolation trying to reclaim her life by confronting her own past. Starting from the need to escape from a reality hard to accept, to the dissociative amnesia in the story that Beckett proposes in the

7th of October 2023 | 19:30-20:20 Rüstem Bookstore About the performance: “Three bodies on stage, confronting each other’s tongue; mother tongue. They are in a state of constant translation; until words are not enough, until movement is not enough, until taste, music, memories are not enough.” The Wall of Babel, is a multilingual performance piece

6th of October 2023 | 20:00-20:55 Gardens of the Future About the performance: “Cassandra, we have a problem” is a solo site-specific performance of a woman inside a bathroom. The bathroom – intimate, dirty and uncomfortable environment – becomes the space of invitation to the listening of a foreign (Brazilian) body that crosses the events

6th of October 2023 | 19:00-19:45 Gardens of the Future About the performance: Waking up and no longer recognizing your own body, losing your mobility, your communication, reorganizing, adapting, metamorphosing. A being at the mercy of its own time, space and choices. The oppression by structures, archetypes and symbols of power when facing their dreams,

5th of October 2023 | 22:30-23:30 Home for Cooperation FREE ENTRANCE About the performance: The performance Overall Progress combines sound design techniques with acoustic instruments, visual arts, and lighting. Challenging traditional artistic and cultural norms, it presents an innovative approach that pushes the boundaries and offers fresh perspectives on the future. Credits: Drums: Baran Sakar

5th of October 2023 | 21:30-22:10 Home for Cooperation FREE ENTRANCE About the performance: Everything uncomfortable that does not finish closing, what remains outside the hegemonic, the norm, is a REST. Thinking of ourselves as identities in transit, putting the paradigm of what is ours in crisis, leads us to ask ourselves: Could difference, singularity,

5th of October 2023 | 20:30-21:00 Home for Cooperation FREE ENTRANCE About the performance: An audio/visual dwelling on the cruel poetics of contradictions, as the corporeal self seeks solace in distant retreats while its ephemeral presence seeps through personas and cracks of perception. An infinite loop of self-reproduction unfolds, a cruel yet delicate act of

5th of October 2023 | 19:00 onwards Home for Cooperation FREE ENTRANCE About the performance: A multimedia installation consisting of white synthetic cotton skeins which are folded and intertwined, creating links (turning points). The three-dimensional form of the cotton simulates a woven cloud in continuous disturbance, ready to burst. The cloud is supported by an

5th of October 2023 | 19:30-20:15 Home for Cooperation FREE ENTRANCE About the performance: SALT is an immersive performance that enables audience members to experience a collapsing relationship through scent, sound, dance, and poetry. Directed and choreographed by Mamie Green and Meg Paradowski of Volta, SALT makes audiences question their assumptions of right and wrong,

6th of October 2023 | 21:30-22:30 Gardens of the Future About the performance: Suppose the heroes of Antigone came to the present and watched the news – how would they re-act? What would they have to tell us and what would we like to learn from them? Power, resistance, hubris. Then, Now and After. In