28.08.2018 - A PERFORMANCE FOR PEOPLE BEHIND BARS
  Live Performance
2018
Venue: Cezayir
Duration: 18'
Video documentation - 5'42''

The performance titled “28th August 2018” was performed on the 28.08.2018 marking the days of inprisonment of academics, journalists, writers, human right defenders / activists, lawyers, politicians and artists in Turkey.

At the time I did the performance Osman Kavala was already 300 days in detention. Osman Kavala is an activist and philanthropist who has supported numerous civil society organizations in Turkey since the early 1990s, chair of the board of Anadolu Kültür, an Istanbul-based nonprofit arts and culture organization. 

After 4.5 years of unlawful detention and injustice Osman Kavala was sentenced on the 25.04.2022 to aggravated life imprisonment for “attempting to overthrow the government”.