Tightrope Walker/Balance Game | 2024- ongoing | Video performance and object

Tightrope Walker / Balance Game reflects on care and manipulation within interpersonal relationships and group dynamics, and how these dynamics function through public appearance.

In the video performance, Umut Azad Akkel plays a game where he carries a large scale across his shoulders while two anonymous figures move freely, placing beer glasses onto either side. All sides are needed to sustain the game, until they aren't.