Candas Bas

Eau De Colonisation- Floating University

Photo: Ulrich Kellermann

EAU DE COLONISATION 2025

CONCEPT CHOREOGRAPHY TEXT; CANDAS BAS

Performance with Thulane Lloyd Mgidi

This site-specific performance reclaims the fairy tale of the Little Mermaid through a monologue colliding migration politics, and capitalist exploitation. Performed by a “rebranded” mermaid who has survived her own myth, the piece unfolds as symbolic relics: mermaid kisses, Eau de Colonisation and a life jacket that arrived too late.

Set in or near water, the performance transforms the site into a liquid archive of colonial memory, environmental grief, lost migration routes and the violence of commodification.

Blending stand-up, ritual, spoken word, and movement, the work exposes how female, mythic, and migrant bodies are packaged, desired and erased.

The work is created for liminal water spaces like lakes, canals, reservoirs, and urban ecological sites.

YOLLUK- KUnsthaus Bethanien

YOLLUK - THE LAST SIP

CONCEPT VIDEO PERFORMANCE CANDAS BAS

Video installation — part of the Rakı Series

Yolluk is the last sip of rakı poured for the road ahead,  a ritual of departure, inheritance and unresolved belonging.

In a 16-minute looping video, the rakı glass is balanced across the body, carried through trembling shifts of weight. The glass becomes an extension of memory, fragile, persistent, impossible to give up.

The work traces how imagined freedom can turn into another form of pressure, how migration reshapes the body’s sense of safety, language and home.

Yolluk is a looping threshold between beginnings and loss, between leaving and carrying.

POLIGONAL & PLUMMO B10179

BREATH 2024

CHOREOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE CANDAS BAS

Created inside Berlin’s former bear enclosure, this collaborative performance inhabits a space marked by captivity, display, and enforced limitation. Working with the architecture of the cage ; fur, stone, narrow ground, running water , Candaş Baş explores what it means to move inside confinement: physically, politically, psychologically.

The performance unfolds as part of an installation by Polygonal with a live polyphonic sound tapestry by Plummo. Distorted field recordings from the surrounding city merge with anecdotes from local voices, sonified social data, and statistics from the real estate industry — tracing urban transformation and capitalist extraction as an audible pressure.

Within this sonic environment, movement emerges as translation: a body responding to exploitation, enclosure, and the shrinking of space. Live vocals cut through the soundscape, turning the cage into an echo chamber of resistance, vulnerability, and survival.

A voice inside the enclosure.

SEREFE- KUIRXGAZINO-KUlTursommerfestival BERLIN-2023

SEREFE 2023

CONCEPT CHOREOGRAPHY MUSIC PERFORMANCE :CANDAS BAS

Interactive performance — part of the Rakı Series

Şerefe is an interactive performance honouring the Turkish gazino and rakı-table culture, a ritual space where music, confession, humour and politics intertwine.

The title means “to the honour.” In the tradition of the rakı table, those who gather swear to their honour that what is spoken there remains there.

Inviting the audience into this fragile social ritual with immersive interaction, Şerefe transforms performance into a shared table of trust, disclosure and open discussion.

YOLLUK- CELEBRATING NEW WAVE FESTIVAL

KOMMUNALES KINO FREIBURG- 2023

YOLLUK 2023

CONCEPT CHOREOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE CANDAS BAS

Presented in a new interactive and performative form, Yolluk unfolds through a conversation with the audience.

the work explores a suspended state of in-betweenness, where belonging remains unstable and the body does not forget..

Between self-realization and disorientation, intimacy and distance, Yolluk is questioning  what is carried within ourselves and what cannot be left behind.