Cock, Cock…Who’s There?
Samira Elagoz
Summerhall
18:45 [55 MIN]
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Time & Venue
- Preview: Aug 3
- Shows: Aug 4-26
- Days off: Aug 8, 9, 20
- Starting time: 18.45
- Show length: 65 min
- Venue: Summerhall Tech Cube 0
- Venue address: 1 Summerhall Pl, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
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CREDIT LIST
- Directed, written, and performed by Samira Elagoz
TOURING ENQUIRIES
- Samira Elagoz
- samira.elagozz(at)gmail.com
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An award-winning performance about violence and intimacy.
Samira Elagoz takes us along on her personal research project across three continents. From online platforms to close encounters, she showcases gender relations in their brutal and wonderful ambivalence and takes the audience on her journey of regaining power, reinventing an autonomous expression of sexuality and attempts to relate to men after being raped. Cock, Cock… Who’s There is confrontational, unrestrainedly funny, deeply touching and formally simply virtuoso. Elagoz explores desire, the power of femininity and the male gaze in a world in which the virtual and the real are inextricably intertwined.
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Samira Elagoz
Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian artist currently based in Amsterdam. She graduated as a choreography BA from the Amsterdam University of the Arts in 2016. Her works addresses subjects like conventional perceptions of “man meets woman”, sexual violence, the manipulative power of the camera, loneliness in digital age and performativity of real life events.
In 2014 Elagoz won the visual art competition Blooom Award in Cologne with her first short “Four Kings”. Her documentary-performance Cock, Cock… Who’s There? won the prestigious Prix Jardin d’Europe, and was also nominated for the BNG Bank Nieuwe Theatermakersprijs, competition for most promising young theater maker in Holland. Her first feature film Craigslist Allstars had it’s premiere at IDFA, world’s biggest festival for documentary, in 2016. The German magazine Tanz titled her as one of the most promising talents of 2017.
