PERFORMANCE
PROJECT
KATHARSIS PERFORMANCE PROJECT is an experimental theater project founded by Peker in 2007. With its plays KPP (de)constructs and (de)composes ontological-semantic questions and the ecstatic states of consciousness (fear, sexuality, cruelty) through graphic notations and metaphorical patterns that express the entanglement of sound and speech, body and space. In KPP experiments, along with the influences of Nietzsche and Artaud, the traces of Peker’s experiences with Ontological-Hysteric Theater and Butoh can also be observed.
KATHARSIS PERFORMANCE PROJECT 2007 yılında Peker tarafından New York’ta başlatılan deneysel bir tiyatro projesidir. KPP oyunlarıyla ontolojik-semantik soruları ve insan bilincinin esrik hallerini (korku, cinsellik, vahşet), ses ve söz ile beden ve mekan arasındaki dolanıklığı dışa vuran grafik notasyonlar ve metaforik örüntülerle (de)kompoze ve (de)konstrükte etmektedir. KPP deneylerinde, Nietzsche ve Artaud etkilerinin yanı sıra, Peker’in Ontological-Hysteric Theater ve Butoh deneyimlerinin izleri de gözlemlenebilmektedir.
KPP'S STAGED EXPERIMENTS/ KPP'NİN SAHNELENMİŞ DENEYLERİ:
REQUIEM AETERNAM DEO (KGB/New York, 2007)
THE VOID (Hybrid Stage Project-Incubator Arts Project/New York, 2010)
THE PLAGUE (Theater for the New City/New York, 2011)
THE RED BOOK (Hybrid Stage Project-Incubator Arts Project/New York, 2013)
DEM (Kumbaracı50/Istanbul, 2016)
KÖR!(LER) (Avto-ikinci Kat-Culter/Istanbul, 2018-19)
MALDOROR (Culter/Istanbul, 2019)
ÖLÜM OYUNLARI (2021/Online)
YOKTUR. (Gri Sahne-SaltBeyoğlu/Istanbul, 2023-25)
"all these “things” I pan/pun/pen about: the zero, the void, the abyss; the grand question of “is nothing is?”; (the infinite parenthesis; (the electromagnetic fields; (the shock of the unintelligible; (the consciousness of chaos; (the infinitesimals of language; (the anterior cingulate cortex; (the body without organs; (the moments within moments)))))))); the incommensurable, the hypotenuse, the tangents; the eternal returns and the vicious circles; the semantic gaps and the negative spaces; the memory, the paradox, the hippocampus; apollo and dionysos; the myths and the rituals; the ecstasy and the cruelty; the unknown and the unconscious; the sublime and the stillness; the taboos and the transgressions; the subtractions and the abstractions; the affirmations and the negations; the “neither”s and the “nor”s; the “either”s and the “or”s; the “de-”s and the “re-”s; the “ah!”s and the “ha!”s; the texts, the textures, the lectures; the mimesis and the metis; the poiesis and the praxis; the katharsis and the apoptosis; the pleasure and the pain; the lost and the found; the past and the future; the “end”s and the “and”s; and the “the” in-its-selves; the transformation, the translation, the transition; the prediction, the precision, the decision; the commitment, the correlation, the concentration; the typography, the topography, the sonography; the indeterminate, the indefinite, the infinite; the blackboxes, the blackouts, the blackholes; the metaphors, the metaphors, the metaphors; the nerves and the veins; the windows and the caves, the maze and the gaze; the rhythm, the pitch, the pace; the eyes, the hands, the tongues; the will, the brain, the lungs; the branches, the threads, the rocks; the ashes, the trashes, the thresholds… all these conceptual mappings and cognitive wirings are parts of my rather short-circuited machine, my migraine-ridden consciousness; that constantly expands and contracts on stage, for years… for everyone and nobody.
KATHARSIS PERFORMANCE PROJECT is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Contributions on behalf of Katharsis Performance Project may be made payable to Fractured Atlas,
and are tax deductible to the extent permitted by law.
