Performance space design
Commissioned by: Fulya Peker, Katharsis Performance Project
In collaboration with:
Tolga Tüzün, sound design
Alev Topal, lighting design
Ali Cindoruk, graphic design
Maldoror’s performance space is built with 3 km long black elastic rope, 450 individual rope segments, 900 knots, 2 wooden slats with 900 notches and 4 glass suction cups. Side by side, parallel, evenly and frequently spaced, the elastic segments form a oblique, permeable and elastic space extending from the junction of the back of the stage and the ceiling to the feet of the audience and covers the entire space. With a simple movement based on one principle gesture, we established a space in which an elastic rope was stretched from the ceiling to the ground with an angle, repeatedly, allowing a multiplicity of possible movements and spatial configurations. The performer can disappear in this oblique space, can split the space, stretch it up and down, and spatialize her breathing with tidal movements, use the permeability as a filter, and take a single rope into her hand and ouse it as an object. Every movement, and therefore every word, transforms the space and transforms into space. The tension of the oblique plane, not quite graspable unless one tries to move within, directs the performance. In short, the body of the performer and the physical environment in which she exists works as an integral and dependent whole. This unity, of course, includes opposition and harmony. The stage is a glass platform built on the ruins of the Hacı Mimi Külhanı,therefore the enormous tension of 450 segments were secured onto the glass fascia with 4 glass suction cups.
Design & production team:
Derin Mavi Üstün, Gözde Çelebi