Let me sing you a story ..
A story
Less
Identity
Land Border
Less
An I-Bex-
Will tell you a story
Will you chew it for I?
For Bex?
Will you chew them?
In The CUD, Sîpan Sezgin Tekin shares the story of a wild mountain goat, the I-BEX. Wild mountain goats symbolise independence and the identity-less individual. Tekin uses this metaphor to explore the relationship between physical, biological conditions and identity.
The CUD forges a bridge between research presentation and lecture performance. The performance begins with a lecture about wild goat anatomy before telling the story of two goats who survive a genocide and settle in a modern city. There, they struggle to face the loss of their essence and natural habitat. As such, the mountain goat symbolises abstract freedom and the identity-less individual that rebels against the established norms of identity, border, nation, race, gender and colour. An attempt to question language, concepts and the politics they generate.
