Kassel based Kurdish artist Mehtap Baydu focuses on questions about gender, identity, migration politics, and possible forms of transgression with a performative approach. For her contribution to the event, in dialogue with Adnan Yıldız, the artist departs from an existing piece, Reden ist Silber (2010), which is a (sculptural) installation based on an old Turkish saying, “Speech is silver, but silence is golden.” The artist collaborated with the twenty one women she approached from different countries, modeled their lips when they were silent and produced them in bronze covering in gold. For her performance piece at Künstlerhaus, Baydu will work with another form of material, and collaborate with Adnan Yildiz.