ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT “INVISIBLE” WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF INVISIBILITY

Abstract

Invisibility might be described as the state of inability to be seen of an object. Many philosphers have been focused on the concept of invisibility. According to Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who has taken up the concept of invisibility, the gaze is bound to movement and we see the things that we direct our gaze to. Our body is both the one that is seen and the one that sees. The site-specific performance project “Invisible” which combines different points of view, had taken three hours on per three consequtive days, has been finalized as an installation on the site following a series of transformations and change. This research focuses on the perception of the concept of invisibility while associating the references of this particular performance. Within this context, the performance rendered it possible to rethink and contemplate the act of seeing. The stories of the unseen, the invisible are displayed in a shop window (vitrine) where the things that are chosen to be shown, and thus, the concepts of visible and invisible are discussed.