Anti-family
From the YEMİNSİZLER series
By and with Duygu Aǧal
How do you deal with turning thirty when all the lovers around you have fallen back into their
family structures, relationships with two people and the desire to have children? What to do with the
fear of not being taken into account? Is the only way to deal with the world to retreat into individual happiness consisting of a nuclear nuclear family? What then happens to us, who have no ancestral place in this miniature?
Is a return to individual happiness to the exclusion of the renegades the only thing that can protect us from loneliness in late capitalist society? What family structures have existed or can exist that are enduring, resistant and socially recognized or at least enforceable without perishing alone?
In YEMİNSİZLER (“The Vowless”), Duygu Agal invites guests from their different lives to Ballhaus Prinzenallee every other month, who repeatedly find themselves confronted with these pathetic questions, especially in their art. What they have in common is that, against all odds, they have dedicated themselves to the mission of fighting for a genuine, loving alternative to loneliness.
Episode one starts on November 28, 2024 under the title: Antifamily.