Phil Hayes and Ferhat Türkoglu
Photo: Adrian Elsener
Phil Hayes (1966) is a performance maker, director, performer, actor and musician. He was born on the south coast of England and studied Creative Arts in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has lived in Zurich since 1998. He develops internationally touring theatre and performance projects, mostly under the label First Cut Productions, including Waiting For Rod (2005), The First Cut (2007), Where Were We (2008), Awkward Human (2011), Legends & Rumours (2013), Love & Happiness (2014), Places Of Interest (2016) These Are My Principles... (2016), WORK (2017), Under The Influence I - III (2018) Heavy Hitters (2020) Phil also works frequently in collaborations with other artists and groups such as Forced Entertainment, Simone Aughterlony, Theater HORA, CAMPO, Maria Jerez, Nada Gambier, Chris Kondek & Christiane Kuehl, watzdameyer, Mass & Fieber, Bruvvers, Thom Luz, Live Theatre Company. Phil teaches, leads workshops and mentors students at the ZHdK in Zurich and La Manufacture in Lausanne, among others. Phil is also a musician and songwriter; with his latest music project Phil Hayes & The Trees he released two LPs on DALA Products and an EP on Ikarus Records.
Photo: Darek Gontarski
Ferhat Türkoglu first studied acting at the Bern University of the Arts and was then a guest student in the drama department at the Ernst Busch in Berlin. As a performing artist in fictional film and television formats, he has been involved in many award-winning productions under his pseudonym Deniz Kara and has worked with renowned directors such as Veit Helmer and Anno Saul. He was also a sponsored student at Tanzfabrik Berlin and has performed alongside well-known stars such as Madonna. After completing his Master's degree in Transdisciplinarity in the Arts at the ZHdK, he is now a Fellowship Program of the Zurich University of the Arts, which is aimed at outstanding graduates of an MA program in theatre, film or dance. His music track Let me Be, which was written during his master's program at the ZHdK, won the European Songwriting Award.
Project
Ferhat Türkoglu examines and documents the artistic process and para-theatrical staging strategies that are concealed in the creation and representation of a pop figure. The pop figure as a category of art figure is understood as an independent artistic-performative work. Phil Hayes accompanies the artistic creation process of Ferhat's pop figure FERHAT. Both document and analyse the "becoming of FERHAT" from the staging of his first public media appearance to music videos and his debut concert.
