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caner teker

26.01.2023
by caner teker

caner teker during their residency at PACT — Photo: caner teker

a hand full of fake blood — Photo: caner teker

Selfie by caner teker — Photo: caner teker

»Our grief – our feelings, as words or actions, images or practices – can open up cracks in the wall of the system. It can also pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, intervulnerability and strength, empathy and solidarity. It can discomfort the stories told from above that would have us believe we aren’t human or deserving of life-affirming lives – or that matter, life-affirming deaths.«
– Cindy Milstein in ›Rebellious Mourning‹

»After ›KIRKPINAR‹ & ›karadeniz‹, my new research on queer androgynous belly dancers called ›köçek‹ will conclude in a trilogy about the trans-individualist self beyond identity politics. Death, mourning and its affects continue my motivation in inviting witnesses to a shared experience of a temporary community in the black box. Within this residency, together with sofie luckhardt and Nora Aaron Scherer, we went into the question of how to design a space within a blackbox resembling mourning, as well as generating movement material through eyes closed work. The gaida, a cross-cultural bagpipe, provided me another body on stage: that of a baby sheep turned into a wind instrument. Blood, on the other hand, mirrors liquids as part of working through a grieving process. In Judith Butler's words: What counts as livable live and grievable death?«

caner teker graduated as a master student from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and then studied at SNDO – School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam. caner teker’s practice deals with the intersectional entanglements of identity, work and post-migration in the context of their personal experience as a German-Turk as well as the life story of their own family. In 2020, caner teker received the Förderpreis für Bildende Künste of the city of Düsseldorf and was a Guest Fellow at PACT Zollverein. caner has shown performances in various national and international venues. Their work ›karadeniz‹ premiered in 2021 and was shown at tanzhaus nrw and HAU- Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin. In 2022 caner was a danceWEB scholarship holder and performed at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Haus der Kunst Munich and the Tanzquartier Wien.

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Ein Gruppenfoto mit vier Personen mit Theaterstrahlern leicht von unten angeleuchtet, Bemalungen im Gesicht, in einem Raum mit weißen Vorhängen an den Wänden, Äste und Gestrüpp hinter der Gruppe arrangiert

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Ein Eiswürfelform gefüllt mit Erde aus der Kabel in verschiedenen Farben ragen und die Fächer der Eiswürfelform miteinander verbinden

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»bacilli (Shotaro Yoshino, Yoshitaka Nanjo & James Jack; based in the archipelago of Japan) listen closely to the energy of microorganisms inside the soil in Zollverein—what do these bacteria inside of land say to us? In this residency we layered geological research on coal memories, oral histories with residents in Ruhr on what gives them energy today and connecting power circuits with imaginative thinking.«

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Raz Slavarito mit bunter Projektion auf dem Gesicht

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En Skater spring mit seinem Skateboard über eine liegende Person im Flur von PACT Zollverein

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Sahar sitzt auf einem grünen Samtsofa und schaut mit dem Kopf auf die Hand gestützt in die Kamera.

#ResidencyInsights Sahar Damoni

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Koloto Siraji in einem weißen Anzug auf einer schwarzen Bühne im Lichtkegel

#ResidencyInsights Koloto Siraji

»During my residency at PACT, I was questioning the nature of a living body from the perspective of an African. This involved reflecting on my own childhood traumas and transgenerational conflicts as well as looking at an African body as an archive of transgenerational history. How do I contain the energies that were passed on to me by my ancestors? How do I live with past traumas in the present?«

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Emmanuel Ndefo hockt vor einer Leinwand mit einer Fotografie von einem performenden Mann

#ResidencyInsights Emmanuel Ndefo

»Adamma- ›The Passage‹ is a solo performance based on the 'Adamma' maiden spirit ritual, touching on forms of transgression and of shape shifting through embodiment and African ancestral spirituality. In this work, I will explore Igbo maiden spirit rituals of crossdressing, transsexualism and transvestism as subversive places, where the notion of subjectivity is challenged, where gender norms are questioned, and where identity is always perceived as capable of construction, invention and change.«

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Die Performer:innen sitzen mit bedeckten Gesichtern auf einer roten Samtcouch

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Our residency in PACT was the second rehearsal period for the production ›What, Where, When are we?!‹ a work that sets out to explore the question of whether identity is rooted in one space and time. It is a rhythmical approach to transnational and multidimensional embodied experiences. Four performers on stage, live drums, and radio stations create sound layers that interweave with body memories.

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Val Souza während des Showings bei PACT Zollverein

#ResidencyInsights Val Souza & Guego Anunciação

Continuing the investigation and convening different and varied sources of archives of iconographies of black women, Venus articulates the extensive selection of gestures present in the images and representations of black women of different origins and times, as well as Val Souza's own self-portrait, that she has been collecting in what she has been calling the Venus archive about 5,000 thousand images, 2,000 self-portraits that can be a source of analysis about possible similarities in the way black women are portrayed and represented.

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Wezile Harmans perfroming in front a red light

#ResidencyInsights Wezile Harmans

»›The Body. The Voice.‹ is a series performance work that studies the development of a human body. The work focuses on the body's relationship with familiar and unfamiliar spaces. The work is divided into 3 scenes using video, live performance and installation. These scenes take us through to lived experiences and tragic events that occurred/occurring across the world, how the body finds itself to adopt, evolve and immense itself through these uncomfortable and difficult trials.«

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Die Künstlerin sitzt mit Farbe beschmiert auf einem Haufen Erde.

#ResidencyInsights Idylla Silmarovi

»The dream manifests itself in the present, action attentive to the world around. I smell memories in the territory of others in the midst of a theater that dances in ruins, a choreography of the body – territory, barking at the border in a situation of war. Submerged in a creative studio and open to the city and the outside, sometimes I step firmly on the ground to make sure I'm here. Living? I don't know anymore.«

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Zwei Pesonen in einem weißen Raum mit blauen Markierungen an den Wänden und dem Boden. Sie Tanzen und bewegen sich durch den Raum.

#ResidencyInsights cat mahari & Jarius King

»In my work I have been staring into the face of questions regarding Black liberation, anarchism, play, and the ways our current order of relations can give way to modes of being that are inherently liberatory from modernity's framing. This is articulated via sound and movement exploration that center Hip Hop as an anarcho-choreographic modality.«

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