Nuray Demir

Semiotiken der Drecksarbeit

  • Performance
German /  approx. 60 mins.

In “Semiotics of Dirty Work” – as the title translates in English – the mothers and fathers of the performers Nuray Demir und Minh Duc Pham have already removed the dirt from the dead ends of institutional power structures. Early in the morning, when the theatres and museums were empty, they removed the urine stone from the urinals or emptied the wastepaper baskets with the draft texts for the rejection letters to the artists of colour. The lives of the second generation also unfold outside the gaze of the dominant society and they, too, are condemned to dirty work. In her third HAU co-production, Nuray Demir, along with Minh Duc Pham, shows how this generation also uses the aggressive all-purpose cleaners of cultural studies to make the white cube shine and gets rid of the toxic waste from the theatres without protective suits or labour unions. In order to reveal how stubbornly ideological deposits root in institutions, they present a semiotics of dirty work. 

Cast

Concept, choreography: Nuray Demir / With: Nuray Demir, Minh Duc Pham / Cultural intimacy coach: Gürsoy Doğtaş / Music: Neda Sanai / Costumes: Nadine Bakota / Banner: George Demir / Lighting: Lea Schneidermann / Text: Fatma Aydemir / Outside eye: Ariel Efraim Ashbel / Assistance: Maximilian Neretin / Production Management: Andrea Caroline Keppler

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Dates

Past
  • Premiere
    Tue 12.4.2022, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Wed 13.4.2022, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Thu 14.4.2022, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Thu 4.4.2024, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Fri 5.4.2024, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Sat 6.4.2024, 19:00 / HAU3
  • Sun 7.4.2024, 17:00 / HAU3

Further Information

Visitor note

There are passages with loud music. Hearing protection is available free of charge in the cloakrooms. Fog effect is being used.

6.4.: Haptic Access Tour (18:00 / Meeting point: Tempelhofer Ufer 10) and German audio description with Martina Reuter

Notes:

6.4.: Haptic Access Tour (18:00 / Meeting point: Tempelhofer Ufer 10) and German audio description with Martina Reuter

Credits

Production: Nuray Demir. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Gessnerallee Zurich. Supported by: NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ co-production funding dance, supported by the Federal Government Commission for Culture and the Media. The re-run is funded by: Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Location

HAU3
Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin

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