Hullabelly
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Nezaket Ekici Hullabelly Videoperformance 2002 and live Performance In the video performance Hullabelly, the artist, veiled by a headscarf, dressed in trousers and a skirt, moves with a hula-hoop to Oriental belly dance music. She uses only her head and neck to rotate the hula-hoop. Ekici gives the everyday hula-hoop a political and cultural twist as she spins the glittering hoop around her veiled head. By using the hula-hoop —an emblem of modernity — Ekici alters its meaning by restricting her performance to her neck, where it makes repeated contact with her headscarf, a symbol of traditional life. Ekici challenges our expectations by using a playful object to illustrate a cultural field of tension, merging tradition with modernity and blending Western lifestyle with the traditional Oriental way of life. One could say that she harmonizes modernity and tradition in the ancient Greek sense of the word harmonia, which essentially means assembling, using some force to create a beautiful proportion and an aesthetic fit. As live performance for example was presented at the 2003 Venice Biennale , lasting three hours to the point where the hula hoop appeared to almost suffocate the artist. This work was part of a collective exhibition of performance installations entitled Recycling the Future. Nezaket Ekici Hullabelly Videoperformance 2002 Duration of the Video: 2:04 Medium: DV 4:3, in Mp4, colour, sound, Camera: Susanne Winterling Editing: Nezaket Ekici Equipment: Hullahoop, Headscarf, Costume, Belly Dance Music Videostill by Susanne Winterling
