Performing Displacement

as part of Tanja Ostovjjc Project Mis(s)placed Women? Project

2017-2022

Mis(s)placed Women? International community gathering Istanbul 2022

photo Gulbin Eris

Misplaced Women(?) Project is a research project that explores migration issues and the vulnerability of misplaced women, through performance actions in public spaces. The research includes questions of home, identity, integration, safety, and loss, as well as a re-enactment of women's stories as 'our' stories through collaboration and embodied investigation.

Live actions such as Performing Displacement, Becoming One with a Bag and Other Misplaced Actions have been performed in various sites such as Millennium Bridge London, Project Space in Hackney, Solidarity Not Charity refugee fundraiser event in Peckham, One Court Gallery in Richmond, a Public Market in Pimlico during Refugee Week, Westfield bridge in Hackney as part of Tanja Ostovijc Mis(s)placed Women? Workshop in conjunction with the Live Art Development Agency, in various public spaces in Istanbul in conjunction with Depo1 as part of an international gathering of Mis(s)placed Women in Istanbul.

This process has involved collaboration with Teresa Albor, Dyana Gravina and Rachel Cherry in London and as part of Tanja Ostovijc Misplaced Women(?) Project in Istanbul including Gaby Bila-Gunther aka LADY GABY, Nazlı Durak, Selma Hekim, Kathryn Fischer aka Mad Kate, Susan Merrick, Tanja Ostojić, Vanessa Ponte, Hieu Hanh Hoang Tran, Arzu Yayıntaş, Gülhatun Yıldırım and Gizem Yılmaz.

Depo1, Istanbul 2022

Live Art Performance as part of Mis(s)placed Women? gathering in Istanbul

Depo1 2022

Photos by Gulbin Eris

Millenium Bridge, London 2021

"Misplaced, Score #3: Becoming One With a Bag", 2021
Performed by: Dagmara Bilon & Dyana Gravina at the Millennium Bridge, London. Mis(s)placed Women? Performance Weekend and the Community Gathering in Belgrade, October 17 2021, via Zoom