Performance:
YOKTUR.
Fulya Peker
Salt Beyoğlu
March 21, 2025 19.00
Still from the performance YOKTUR., Gri Sahne, Istanbul, 2024
Photo: Cemil Batur Gökçeer
Photo: Cemil Batur Gökçeer
Walk-in Cinema
“[…] and the root of the earth is in water, the root is in water.”
“YOKTUR. is an ontological rhyme that oscillates between the autopsy of language and the timbre of a hymn. We navigate turbulent waters where the boundaries between being and non-being intertwine. A mythological figure—a fem-immortal—bears an ancient riddle that stirs our thirst for truth and meaning, carrying it from the realm of the dead to the audience: Does nothing exist? By transforming logos into paradox, the repeated words in this semantic journey disrupt the ingrained schemes of ‘imagination contented with imagery’ and challenge the ways we confront not only the dualities of being and non-being, and existence and death, but also the phenomenon of 1 from 0. Words become both a buoy for reasoning and an invitation for the mind to loosen its grip on logic and drift into the depths.”
YOKTUR. will be presented in the Walk-in Cinema at Salt Beyoğlu on March 21 at 19.00, with the invitation of “Sea Snotting or Nothing Less than Flamboyant in the Salty Waters of Istanbul,” one of the five research strands in Water Assemblies. Through sensory and bodily experiences, this experimental theater piece will support the collective imagination to be cultivated within the research focused on water ecologies in the Sea of Marmara, and create a space for collective thinking around the themes of fluidity, decay, and rebirth in relation to the phenomenon of sea snot.
Following the free-admission performance, Fulya Peker will be in conversation with the audience and the constituents of Water Assemblies.
Writer, Director, and Performer: Fulya Peker
Stage and Lighting Design: Aslıhan Demirtaş
Sound Design: Fulya Peker
Sound Editing: Tolga Tüzün
Visual Design: Ali Cindoruk
Technical Advisor: Alev Topal
Limited seats. No reservations.
Fulya Peker is a performing artist and educator based in New York and Istanbul. She presents her experimental and interdisciplinary stage works as a writer-director-performer under the Katharsis Performance Project, which she founded in 2007. In New York, she has performed in works by Richard Foreman, John Zorn, and Robert Ashley, and continues her collaboration with experimental opera group Object Collection. Since 2015, Peker has been offering courses on directing and experimental theater and organizing the METAFOR Festival at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her literary translations, poems, and articles on philosophy and experimental theater have been published across various platforms. Currently, she is working on a book titled (0/0)^0=(c0llectedw0rds)!, to be published by Contra Mundum Press, and continues to present performances and workshops based on her physical, vocal, and conceptual research.
“[…] and the root of the earth is in water, the root is in water.”
“YOKTUR. is an ontological rhyme that oscillates between the autopsy of language and the timbre of a hymn. We navigate turbulent waters where the boundaries between being and non-being intertwine. A mythological figure—a fem-immortal—bears an ancient riddle that stirs our thirst for truth and meaning, carrying it from the realm of the dead to the audience: Does nothing exist? By transforming logos into paradox, the repeated words in this semantic journey disrupt the ingrained schemes of ‘imagination contented with imagery’ and challenge the ways we confront not only the dualities of being and non-being, and existence and death, but also the phenomenon of 1 from 0. Words become both a buoy for reasoning and an invitation for the mind to loosen its grip on logic and drift into the depths.”
YOKTUR. will be presented in the Walk-in Cinema at Salt Beyoğlu on March 21 at 19.00, with the invitation of “Sea Snotting or Nothing Less than Flamboyant in the Salty Waters of Istanbul,” one of the five research strands in Water Assemblies. Through sensory and bodily experiences, this experimental theater piece will support the collective imagination to be cultivated within the research focused on water ecologies in the Sea of Marmara, and create a space for collective thinking around the themes of fluidity, decay, and rebirth in relation to the phenomenon of sea snot.
Following the free-admission performance, Fulya Peker will be in conversation with the audience and the constituents of Water Assemblies.
Writer, Director, and Performer: Fulya Peker
Stage and Lighting Design: Aslıhan Demirtaş
Sound Design: Fulya Peker
Sound Editing: Tolga Tüzün
Visual Design: Ali Cindoruk
Technical Advisor: Alev Topal
Limited seats. No reservations.
Fulya Peker is a performing artist and educator based in New York and Istanbul. She presents her experimental and interdisciplinary stage works as a writer-director-performer under the Katharsis Performance Project, which she founded in 2007. In New York, she has performed in works by Richard Foreman, John Zorn, and Robert Ashley, and continues her collaboration with experimental opera group Object Collection. Since 2015, Peker has been offering courses on directing and experimental theater and organizing the METAFOR Festival at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her literary translations, poems, and articles on philosophy and experimental theater have been published across various platforms. Currently, she is working on a book titled (0/0)^0=(c0llectedw0rds)!, to be published by Contra Mundum Press, and continues to present performances and workshops based on her physical, vocal, and conceptual research.
