DIRTY TURK - 2018
AKA. DIRTY IMMIGRANT
Dirty Turk was a live immersive experience featuring video installations, original music, and large-scale puppetry. This emotionally charged production examined the assimilation struggles of first generation children of immigrant, migrant and refugee populations in the United States.
Artstillery’s cast and crew developed the media, script and movement for this work as a group. The team consists of Iranian, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Mexican, Syrian, and Bulgarian Americans.
Enter the mind of Ozlem as she processes cultural assimilation, racial terror, and never feeling like she was enough in Turkish or American societies. Witness her memories unfold, sometimes simultaneously, as you meet the different generations of her family.
Testimonies from Dallas immigrants, migrants, and refugees are incorporated into the script.
August - September 2018
Location - 723 Fort Worth Av, Dallas TX
Funded by the Office of Cultural Affairs & Artstillery
VIDEO CLIP
Watch this short excerpt from the immersive experiance. The puppets were based off Ilknur Ozgur's grand parents. It was a feeling of the stories lost when they past that spured Ilknur to write the first script.
Then that same feeling grew as she heard and found other stories similar of searching for identity in a new land. She added the stories of refugees fleeing chaos, migrants looking for better life, and immigrants trying to balance assimilation and culture.
Video Production and Editing by
Jacques Star Video Productions
