katherine behar
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Title: Data's Entry
Media: Performance
Duration and dimensions: Variable
Year: 2016.
Exhibited: "Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girişi." Solo exhibition at Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Sept 8–Oct 16, 2016. Curated by Fatma Colakoglu and Ulya Soley.

Credits:

Performers: Asli Bostanci and Melih Kirac

Understudy: Pinar Akyuz

Sound design: Shelley Burgon

Special Thanks: Fatma Colakoglu and Ulya Soley

Supported in part by the Pera Museum, and by a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by the Professional Staff Congress and the City University of New York.

art: Data's Entry
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Description

In the durational performance Data's Entry, a dancer interacts with an unwieldy capsule-shaped QWERTY interface.

Statement

In Data's Entry, the unforgiving surface of keyboard keys represents accumulated data and recalls the mind-numbing and dehumanizing repetition that is the basis of data entry. In this awkward performance, the dancer's body is both registered and rejected by the keyboard interface. The performer's struggle shows the obstacle of data's presence in our lives as we force our bodies into it through biometrics and grueling minutia.

Inspired by the Pera Museum's Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, this project seeks to restore weight to data's measure.