Caner Teker

Between Bridges is pleased to present repertoire, a solo exhibition by Caner Teker as part of the Between Bridges Residency.

A repertoire is the body of works that an ensemble can perform at any time. The word comes from the Latin repertorium: a list, an inventory. The exhibition applies this idea to performances that emerged from a single body. What remains of them, who preserves them, who will perform them next?

The starting point is Kirkpinar, a performance for two people, approximately one hour in length, based on yağlı güreş, Turkish oil wrestling. It premiered at Tanztage Berlin at Sophiensæle. Since then, Teker has toured the work across Europe, with performances in Dortmund, Zurich, Munich, Vienna and at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, among other venues. The work is held as a score in the collection of the Museum Ostwall in Dortmund.

The exhibition presents, for the first time, a two-channel film of Kirkpinar, produced from footage of a performance at Berlin Atonal at Kraftwerk Berlin.

Ring is a score from Kirkpinar. The exhibiting institution builds a ring of at least 2.5 × 2.5 meters from its own inventory and archive. The score states: “The inside must remain inaccessible.”

Costumes is a score derived from b2b / nothing new, performed at Between Bridges, Keithstraße in September. During the exhibition’s opening hours, the staff wear costumes from Teker’s performance archive.

Sox consists of a pair of low-pressure sodium-vapour lamps, installed as a duet, as the only source of light in space.

Like Kirkpinar, ring, costumes and sox exist as scores: instructions according to which others can own and re-perform the works.