\u00b0 1982, Ankara\/Turkey, lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.<\/p>\n
While studying molecular biology and genetics in Ankara, Beg\u00fcm Erciyas got involved in various dance projects in Turkey and became part of [laboratuar], a performing arts research and project group. Later, she studied at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. She was artist-in-residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2007\/08, at K3- Zentrum f\u00fcr Choreographie Hamburg in 2009 and at the Villa Kamogawa \/ Goethe Institute Kyoto in 2014.<\/p>\n
Between 2014-2016, Beg\u00fcm was committed to a longer research period around one’s own voice. She wanted to make a performance that is experienced in complete solitude, a performance that happens between oneself and one’s own voice. The resulting performance Voicing Pieces <\/em>(2016) has kept her busy until now.<\/p>\n From 2018 until 2020, she has been researching the topic of artificial intimacies, while continuing the search for new theatrical formats that would allow audience to have a solitary experience. In Pillow Talk<\/em> (2019), the audience is invited to engage in a conversation with an artificial voice coming from a pillow, while being immersed in a large-scale collective scenography.<\/p>\n