Dressed in A4 documents marked over with highlighter, a masked figure enters Platform’s 360‑degree open stage with the words:”I feel like a piece of paper. I’m a couple of thousand papers long”. The documents come from artist Noah Umur Kanber’s own encounters with the public system and bear witness to the bureaucratic and emotionally detached processes she experienced throughout her childhood.
In the performance I feel like a piece of paper, Noah Umur Kanber reclaims her story and steps closer to her sense of self. She invites you into a ceremony that, through vulnerability, anger, and humor, asks you to consider how you, as a stranger, can offer care to someone you do not know.
Noah Umur Kanber is an artist based in Copenhagen with roots in Turkey, Iraq, and Turkmenistan. She works at the intersection of the intimate and the political, where the body often functions as both medium and message. Through sculpture, performance, installation, and storytelling, she explores identity, queerness, migration, mythology, and institutionalisation. She works consciously in the in‑between spaces – as a trans person, as a “monster”, as a minority, as an artist – giving form and presence to what is otherwise overlooked.