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Özgür Erkök Moroder - Deja Boo (pefrormance)
Özgür Erkök Moroder - Deja Boo (performance)
Event by: Hosek Contemporary
Location: Hosek Contemporary, Fischerinsel, Berlin - Mitte
About event
Hošek Contemporary is pleased to host 'Deja Boo', a performance by Özgür Erkök Moroder - a composed improvisation for voice, kick drum and self-care tools dedicated to the "fear of healing".
Friday October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Admission : 10 €
As a part of the solo exhibition “Somatic Algorithm" (13-21.06.25)
An evolving loop of a seance in a rabbit hole, connecting to the primitive whistles and tones of the soma.
Deja Boo is a performance piece, structured with a set of guidelines and actions, referring to John Cage’s “composed improvisation for snare drum”. It is an experiment in dynamics of the concept of healing and self-care practices in a ritualistic and neo-dadaistic manner through sound and movement.
The piece focuses on using the body as a sound instrument with self-care products, repurposing these tools by assigning them unconventional functions, and transforming wellness practices. There the voice is an essential element as the main instrument performing and exploring the primitive sounds of the subconsciousness and pleasure.
The audience witnesses the performer’s transformation and reconnection with the self in unconventional ways.
The title is a wordplay, combining “déjà vu”—the feeling of experiencing a new situation as if you have lived it before—with “boo”, an expression used to frighten. It aims to create a framework based on the notions of feeling of repetition and fear, bringing them together with “healing”.
The performance addresses healing and transformation on both individual and collective, including socio-political, levels. Its aim is to investigate the connections between psycho-biological constructions (the relationship between psychological and behavioural processes and the underlying physiological mechanisms) and the production of signifier, signified, and meaning systems.
"Composed improvisation" refers to works by John Cage that, rather than being fully notated, offer a framework of instructions and guidelines for the performer, thus incorporating improvisation within a predefined structure.
https://erkokozgur.wixsite.com/ozgurerkokmoroder
Özgür Erkök Moroder, it/das (1981, TR) studied art, design and music. In Berlin since 2012. Multidisciplinary Artist focuses on identity, gender and everyday-life politics. Performer, drawer, costume & stage designer, vocal worker, music and video producer, Art Pedagog and activist. Realized many performances, workshop projects, collaborations. Participated in exhibitions and biennials.
Its artistic practice is often blurring the borders between different disciplines and genres. The Artworks are mostly Investigating the relationship between everyday and extraordinary, signifier and meaning, subconscious and ego, rational and absurd, centauric fusions and technology with queer and neo-dadaistic approach. Collaborations are an important part of its practice.
Taking the risk of being politically incorrect. There it allows artwork to create experience and experiment fields to examine the limits in order to fabricate and investigate and suggest new ways of thinking.
Performing as "sesperisi" (solo SynthPunk Opera Performance Project). It composed sound and music pieces for performances and theater pieces (Ibrahim Quraishi, Shlomo Liebermann). Appeared in independent feature films (Ex The Movie, Berlin Beat, Captain Faggotron..) Designed costumes for performances and fetish parties (Hau, Kitkat Club, Kinky Galore). Curated performance events and exhibitions (Irrzone, 48 Stunden Neukölln). Realized countless pedagogical artistic workshop projects with young people and adults (Kultur Agenten, YoungArts Neukölln, Juks Schöneberg, ArtPaed).
- Nominated for National Galerie Young Art Prize 2015 (Berlin)
- Nominated for Full Art Prize, Semi Final 2011 (Istanbul)
- Chairperson and workshop conductor at Jugendkunstschule YoungArts Neukölln e.V.
- Member of art collective Ha Za Vu Zu (Istanbul) 2005-2022
- Coordinator & Artist at Apartment Project-Berlin (2012-17)
- Comics & Manga, Queer Costume Design, Animation workshop conductor at YoungArts Neukölln (2018-)
- Costume design workshops conductor at Jugendkunstschule Schöneberg (2023-)
Exhibitions & Performances - selection:
- ”Tak-Heel”, at "we have been at the tapestry since the 90s", Salt Beyoğlı, İstanbul, TR, 2025
-IAAB Residency Program / Performance Tour, Basel, CH, 2010
-”Touch Amplifiers”, Live Art Denmark / SORT/HVID Theatre, Cophenagen, DN, 2023
-”Tak-Heel”, performance with Ha Za Vu Zu, MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT, 2015
-”Zombie and Dummy”, Soho in Ottakring, Wien, AT, 2014;
-”Laufstaek-in”, Maxim Gorki Theater Studio R, Berlin, DE, 2016,-”What is queer today”, NGBK, Berlin, DE, 2014
-”Controlled Fantasy”, solo exhibition, Apartment Project, Berlin, DE, 2017
The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
Märkisches Ufer 1z
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
+49 1525 7486496
www.hosekcontemporary.com
Friday October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Admission : 10 €
As a part of the solo exhibition “Somatic Algorithm" (13-21.06.25)
An evolving loop of a seance in a rabbit hole, connecting to the primitive whistles and tones of the soma.
Deja Boo is a performance piece, structured with a set of guidelines and actions, referring to John Cage’s “composed improvisation for snare drum”. It is an experiment in dynamics of the concept of healing and self-care practices in a ritualistic and neo-dadaistic manner through sound and movement.
The piece focuses on using the body as a sound instrument with self-care products, repurposing these tools by assigning them unconventional functions, and transforming wellness practices. There the voice is an essential element as the main instrument performing and exploring the primitive sounds of the subconsciousness and pleasure.
The audience witnesses the performer’s transformation and reconnection with the self in unconventional ways.
The title is a wordplay, combining “déjà vu”—the feeling of experiencing a new situation as if you have lived it before—with “boo”, an expression used to frighten. It aims to create a framework based on the notions of feeling of repetition and fear, bringing them together with “healing”.
The performance addresses healing and transformation on both individual and collective, including socio-political, levels. Its aim is to investigate the connections between psycho-biological constructions (the relationship between psychological and behavioural processes and the underlying physiological mechanisms) and the production of signifier, signified, and meaning systems.
"Composed improvisation" refers to works by John Cage that, rather than being fully notated, offer a framework of instructions and guidelines for the performer, thus incorporating improvisation within a predefined structure.
https://erkokozgur.wixsite.com/ozgurerkokmoroder
Özgür Erkök Moroder, it/das (1981, TR) studied art, design and music. In Berlin since 2012. Multidisciplinary Artist focuses on identity, gender and everyday-life politics. Performer, drawer, costume & stage designer, vocal worker, music and video producer, Art Pedagog and activist. Realized many performances, workshop projects, collaborations. Participated in exhibitions and biennials.
Its artistic practice is often blurring the borders between different disciplines and genres. The Artworks are mostly Investigating the relationship between everyday and extraordinary, signifier and meaning, subconscious and ego, rational and absurd, centauric fusions and technology with queer and neo-dadaistic approach. Collaborations are an important part of its practice.
Taking the risk of being politically incorrect. There it allows artwork to create experience and experiment fields to examine the limits in order to fabricate and investigate and suggest new ways of thinking.
Performing as "sesperisi" (solo SynthPunk Opera Performance Project). It composed sound and music pieces for performances and theater pieces (Ibrahim Quraishi, Shlomo Liebermann). Appeared in independent feature films (Ex The Movie, Berlin Beat, Captain Faggotron..) Designed costumes for performances and fetish parties (Hau, Kitkat Club, Kinky Galore). Curated performance events and exhibitions (Irrzone, 48 Stunden Neukölln). Realized countless pedagogical artistic workshop projects with young people and adults (Kultur Agenten, YoungArts Neukölln, Juks Schöneberg, ArtPaed).
- Nominated for National Galerie Young Art Prize 2015 (Berlin)
- Nominated for Full Art Prize, Semi Final 2011 (Istanbul)
- Chairperson and workshop conductor at Jugendkunstschule YoungArts Neukölln e.V.
- Member of art collective Ha Za Vu Zu (Istanbul) 2005-2022
- Coordinator & Artist at Apartment Project-Berlin (2012-17)
- Comics & Manga, Queer Costume Design, Animation workshop conductor at YoungArts Neukölln (2018-)
- Costume design workshops conductor at Jugendkunstschule Schöneberg (2023-)
Exhibitions & Performances - selection:
- ”Tak-Heel”, at "we have been at the tapestry since the 90s", Salt Beyoğlı, İstanbul, TR, 2025
-IAAB Residency Program / Performance Tour, Basel, CH, 2010
-”Touch Amplifiers”, Live Art Denmark / SORT/HVID Theatre, Cophenagen, DN, 2023
-”Tak-Heel”, performance with Ha Za Vu Zu, MAXXI Museum, Rome, IT, 2015
-”Zombie and Dummy”, Soho in Ottakring, Wien, AT, 2014;
-”Laufstaek-in”, Maxim Gorki Theater Studio R, Berlin, DE, 2016,-”What is queer today”, NGBK, Berlin, DE, 2014
-”Controlled Fantasy”, solo exhibition, Apartment Project, Berlin, DE, 2017
The gallery is located at
Motor Ship HEIMATLAND
Märkisches Ufer 1z
10 179 Berlin-Mitte
+49 1525 7486496
www.hosekcontemporary.com