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Who’s Going To Die If I Kill My Self?

The performance of EMIRHAKIN acts out the existence of a queer body in, and in hindsight of, the Turkish army. Using his own experience of compulsory military service as his point of reflection, this looping performance highlights the notions of self-fabrication, social camouflage and the oppressive structures that the artist had to endure.

This process is recounted in fractured stages, as EMIRHAKIN recites the institutional and social boundaries that were imposed upon him. By re-encountering these boundaries in his performance, the artist simultaneously battles the preconceived mould that he was expected to fit as well as the present and future realisation of himself.