THE HELIX

Can (1986, Istanbul) is a Turkish cross-field queer artist working in the fields of dance, theatre, video art and performance. He did a master’s degree in Theater Practices in Paris and studied contemporary dance in Barcelona. He recently completed the master’s degree in Performanc Practices at ArtEZ art academy. He made the dance performance “U_________S” about the emotional experience as a way out of violence within the entanglement of bodies of fascism, eroticism and somatics.

He is known as a ‘contemporaty shamanic artist’ (and as a metaphyphical catalyst) who explores the inner world and archetypes of man. Because he places his work between utopia and the fall, he is often concerned with themes such as masculinity, eroticism, intimacy and he is obsessed with the many ways of connection and intra-connection between bodies.

Last year he performed at the Amsterdam Fringe Festival with his dance performance BEYOND (in collaboration with Ufuk Senel, in theater CC Amstel). This performance was inspired by the tradition of Turkish oil wrestling that explores how to be connected by embodying an ‘ethereal’ relationship between male bodies.