2019, “Cover, fill and burry. What is love?”, performance, 210 minutes, The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation

What am I covering up with love?

I am compressing the accumulations to the jars and burying them into love.

Cover, fill and burry, What is love?

To dig all of them and leave them to the sea, I waited for the door knocking and myself to arrive…

Cover, fill, bury… What is love? is a performance set up with using participants love letters were created in performance when they drank *Ordo Amoris. This performance invites participants to a journey through various love definitions. Because the meaning of love except the gender identity could be creative process for the artists or according to someone to remember your childhood dreams or trying to find innerself. In this journey, rituals, voices, tastes and some supporters from literature will accompany to participants.

Duration is changing from 13 minutes to multiples of 13 minutes at the performance. Performance artist and one participant have 13 minutes to share life focusing on love. Moreover, the other participants who watch, listen and taste the tea can join the performance while the performance artist and participant are writing the love letters.

Ordo Amoris is mixed herbal tea recipe that comes from my third-great grandmother, with licorice, chamomile, anise and anchusa officinalis

p.s. Participants love letters were created in performance will be parts of the book ” What is love?”

Curator: Merve Elveren

Organization: K.E.Ksevenler, The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation

Costum Sponsor: Bashaques