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(2011) 5'single channel projection 

starring: Ayça Damgacı, Boysan Yakar    performers: Hakan Ummak, Ünal B., Baran Ergenç, Hande Öçalan, Ekin Yaşa, Tümay Tüzüner, Metehan Özkan, Gökçe Yiğitel, Tarkan Fenercioğlu, Kerem Can Dum, Özle Türk, Fırat Kuşçu, Yeşim Ünan, Murat B., Aylin Güngör, Ekin Sanaç, Leyla Çapacı, Aybike Esin Tumluer, Yasmin Allovi, Cem Tenikalp, Mehmet Ömür  thanks to: Cem Tenikalp and Kaan Karacehennem - (technical support)  translation to English: Ferdi Çetin, Deniz Kırkanahtar

to tına / what's love got to do wıth ıt?

biriken's video is the visual imitation of Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do with It" shot by Mark Robinson in 1984. The original video features Turner walking down the street engaging with the public, intercut with scenes where she's singing directly to the viewers.

The video, which has been remade with Ayça Damgacı and Boysan Yakar in place of Tina Turner, attacks both the strong but sensitive woman image created by the superstar and dualities like singular-plural, genuine-imitation, incomplete-overflow, slave-master. The video, which shows the two figures walking on the Istanbul streets with their own voices on the screen split in two, is an attempt for the individual, social and current interpretation of concepts like love, sex, and relationship.

"Tezkan and Urun make use of Damgacı’s strong public persona (the actress is best known outside of Turkey for her starring role in Gitmek: My Marlon and Brando, which recounts the true story of Damgacı’s travel across Turkey during the early phase of the 2003 Iraq War to rescue her love, a Kurdish actor who is trapped behind the border) to explore the fragility and heartbreak that often lie behind such seemingly impenetrable exteriors." Elizabeth Wolfson

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