I enter the next white space, filled with many objects: a white ramp against the back wall; a clothes rack with clothes and costumes; an overhead projector; an electric water kettle and tea glasses; glass containers filled with various things attached to rope, ready to be lifted from the floor.

In the beginning, Ulduz enters with a tray of tea, serving it to a few people in the audience. I assume that it is Turkish black tea based on the glasses it is in. However, I later read that Ulduz is from Iran, so now I do not know where the tea is from, or, if this is actually relevant.
She is pregnant. She dances to music that I place in a category of “oriental”. She holds two glasses in her hands. She breaks one glass in her hand. She boils water with the lid open, closing the lid when the water is finished.
She removes her long, fake braids.
She projects the tea leaves onto the ramp and wall. She pours boiling water over the leaves. She pours S–Budget cream over the water and the leaves.
The room starts vibrating.
She gets onto a ramp. The walls start vibrating.
She takes off her shirt and holds up two fingers.
She moves her pregnant belly with her hands.
Her gestures simulate a machine gun.
She covers her eyes with her hair;
long hair, transformative hair.

There is desire in her body as she lies on the ramp, legs spread, belly protruding, undulating softly. Or maybe it’s desire in my body that I am projecting onto her.

A flying floating fish enters the space. (A flying floating fish that bumps into things will always get my attention.) It glitters in the light and the back fin moves back and forth..

The already-created world has become even more mysterious.

Elements of culture (pomegranates, meat-on-the-bone, living flies, amongst other things) have been put into glass containers and hung from the ceiling. They swing like pendulums after being pushed.

She leaves the space.
An installation-type setting with 3 video screens marks the end of the trip.
I leave thinking about love, desire, and women warriors.

Deborah Hazler is a dancer and choreographer living in Vienna, Austria. She makes her own work and works for others. She is the co-organizer of RAW MATTERS, whose aim is to support performance artists by presenting their works in process. She is currently enrolled as a student for Textil Kunst Design at the Kunstuniversität Linz. She will see what happens with that.