We are pleased to introduce caner teker, the eighth recipient of the Between Bridges Residency. From July to December 2026, teker is based at Between Bridges' residency space on Keithstraße. teker's choreographic practice approaches the body as a site where violence, discipline, desire, and projection converge, working across live performance, music, and film. Their work has been presented internationally in theatres, museums, and exhibition contexts.

As part of the Between Bridges Residency, caner teker is developing b2b / nothing new – a choreographic study that unfolds in serial form.


caner teker’s b2b / nothing new is a series of solos performed in pairs, or a duet that takes turns. The work, which remains a process, presents fragments of preceding solos (KIRPINAR 2020, -trans 2021, grounds for refusal 2022) developed and performed by caner teker, by passing the material on to Martin Hansen, Emil Ertl, Noumissa Sidibé, and, in a later iteration, Lucia Gugerli. For this occasion at Between Bridges, the composition adds up to three hours and is set to a musical score provided by Space Afrika.

By untying the knot between development, score, and performance, this study raises questions about embodiment in performance itself. What was developed in parts through improvisational techniques of “authentic movement,” and in the context of caner’s solo practice, changes character drastically when transposed onto another performer: what could have been legible as a derivative of past personal experience and practice –– of a body keeping some kind of score –– becomes devoid of the personal. What stays is a bunch of costumes, the ghostly presence of past affects, and a score as a formalized medium of transaction in need of re-animation through the interpretation of others. This repetition of solo material thus performs a conceptual intervention in frameworks that rely on an emphatic link between identity (as derivative of experience) and performance. The performance of b2b / nothing new denies access to the multiple identities presented and thus evades an economy that auratically charges the (wounded or culturally marked) body to create legitimacy and attention. The constant wavering between a score and its improvised execution by others creates a blur between one authoring body “as source” and performance as interpretation. The abstraction from an assumed body of origin conceptually echoes the gestures of self-defense that make up part of the movement material. “Abstraction can be one means to resist the cultural marking of the human body. This is a mode of defense, to be sure, but it is also fueled by an embrace of openness and the not-yet-known.” (David J. Getsy, Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction)

Throughout these various transactions, the score serves as a medium to ensure repeating patterns. As the title insinuates, an interest in repetition propels the work and also places it in the broader framework of caner teker’s practice, which frequently employs copying, appropriation, remixes, and citational operations, transposing material from other contexts into the black box. In these works, tradition, culture, habits, trauma, and practice are rendered as media of repetition. Instead of retracing the material back to a source they often keep it in circulation, allowing each performance to obscure the idea of a single origin even further.

– Joshua Wicke

Upcoming events

caner teker
b2b / nothing new

Performance program by caner teker in collaboration with Martin Hansen, Emil Ertl, Noumissa Sidibé
Music: Space Afrika
Outside Eye: Joshua Wicke
Creative Production: Darcey Bennett

Wednesday, 9 September 2026, 7–10 pm
Thursday, 10 September 2026, 5–8 pm
Friday, 11 September 2026, 7–10 pm
Visitors are welcome to drop in anytime within the time frame.

Between Bridges Residency Space
Keithstraße 15
10787 Berlin

caner teker is a survivor, artist and choreographer, born in 1994 in Duisburg-Marxloh. After studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, teker continued a post-graduate studies at SNDO – School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. teker’s work deals with the body as a site where violence, discipline, desire, and projection meet, often drawing on live performance, music, and film.

Over the past years, teker has developed performances and films presented in theatres, museums, and exhibition contexts across Europe and beyond, including HAU – Hebbel am Ufer, Gessnerallee Zürich, Tanzquartier Wien, Maxim Gorki Theater, CAPC Bordeaux, Mudam Luxembourg, Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum Ostwall Dortmund, and Fogo Island Arts. Recent works include trans–, KIRKPINAR, grounds for refusal, untitled (live) and the film remedy.

teker’s performance has been acquired for the collection of Museum Ostwall in Dortmund in 2023. Further awards, residencies, and stipends include ars viva-Prize 2024, tanzhaus Zürich, Kulturakademie Tarabya in Istanbul, Fogo Island Arts in Canada and the Live Studio at Kunsthalle Bergen. In 2026, teker continues this work through residencies with Between Bridges and Künstlerische Forschung via Kunststiftung NRW.