Georgia Lale

“3”

The action 3 is a durational performance that portrays the three different ways the artist’s last name has been pronounced and spelled during the course of the last hundred years. Lale’s grandfather’s family were refugees who migrated from Turkey to Greece. In Turkey, their last name meant “red tulip” and was written with Ottoman Arabic characters. When the family migrated to Greece, the last name was pronounced in a different way and written with characters of the Greek alphabet. Its meaning of “tulip” is still recognized in Northern Greece. In America, where Lale migrated 7 years ago, Lale’s last name doesn’t have any specific meaning. It is spelled with Latin characters and has a totally new pronunciation.

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*This performance took place on November 15th 2020