every. single. one. 

every. single. one. is an hour long performance that emerges from questions of care, intimacy, and exchange within artistic practice, where making becomes inseparable from relationships with others. As a consequence, it reflects a specific time, place and a group of people who were intentionally selected through a closed invitation. The performer fulfills hosting duties from underneath the bedsheet, while the guests remain on top. 

The work considers how vulnerability can be shared without being extracted, and how acts of giving and receiving might exist outside of commodification. The work is grounded in the domestic space of the bed and a dinner party. The bed understood as a site of rest and the dinner party understood as a site of giving, both spaces overlap in their strange relationship to labor, privacy, exposure, and care. 

The piece develops a participatory structure in which materials donated by others become the foundation of a shared environment, entangling personal histories through touch, memory, and use. Within this framework, the performance reflects on the instability of boundaries between self and other, work and rest, intimacy and distance, asking how meaning is produced through tactile exchange rather than representation.

Created and performed by Irmak Sagir

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This project is made possible by the generous support of the Steven D. Smallen Creativity Fund.