"Italian performance artists Pippa Bacca and Silvia Moro departed from Milano on International Women’s Day (8th March) in 2008 to realize a performance that involved hitch-hiking, separately, through the Balkans and the Middle East. Aiming to meet people and listen to their stories of war and peace along a route that included some war-torn territory, their final destination was to be Tel Aviv. They called their performance “Brides on Tour” and wore white wedding dresses as a symbol of the marriage between different peoples and nations. These wedding dresses were to be exhibited as the residue of the performance, bearing all the traces of their journey. Silvia Moro reached Tel Aviv, finalizing her part of the performance. Pippa Bacca was raped and killed in Gebze, Turkey on the third week of the performance, after having hitchhiked through Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. Feminist activist groups and artists in Turkey issued statements of reaction, marched on walks of protest, organized exhibitions in Pippa Bacca’s name to damn not only the rapist, but the whole culture of rape (incest, rape of single tourist women, intramarriage rape, etc.) in Turkey. The matter is now in the hands of the police, who have caught the felon, but are investigating further suspicion as to other men involved in the rape and murder." Read rest of the article "Performing and Dying in the name of World Peace: From Metaphor to Real Life in Feminist Performance" by Ahu Antmen from Rupkatha Journal Vol. II, No. 1 (Issue url: rupkatha/rupkathav2n1.php Article url: rupkatha/V2/n1/BridesonTourpippabacca.pdf)
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:36:43 +0000
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