Ceylan Öztrük: Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
Ceylan Öztrük:
Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM
Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM
No language skills necessary
10€/15€/20€/25€
German premiere
Friday, 19.09. 7:15 PM – 7:30 PM Pre Show Access
What if spaces were not meant to be fixed or redefined, but instead a new spatial concept could be built—a new mindspace? The spaces we inhabit are already constructed, shaping presence and marking territories embedded in the mind.
Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM takes place at the dawn of the mind. States of being navigate the threshold between the constructed and the instinctive. The narration unfolds in variation—fragmented, diffracted, shifting across internal registers. It reveals a spectrum of selves within the individual: selves that move, hesitate, reassemble. Here, narration dissolves and reconfigures, opening new possibilities for existential and political exposure.
The piece engages with the idea of space as a questioning of the self through a method of diffraction, rather than reflection. Ceylan Öztrük expands disorientation as a narrative instrument, sculpting the theatre space as a moment that reveals the internal performance of selves.
Ceylan Öztrük last performed at Sophiensæle in summer 2023, where she wowed the sold-out Festsaal with Wearing the Angles, Kissing the Room and melting sculptures, clever humor and impressive light and sound choreography. Now she is returning to Berlin with her new work Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM directly after its premiere in Zurich.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Duration
- Approximately 60 minutes without intermission
Language
- little sponken English
- No understanding of the language is required to enjoy the performance.
Light
- The room is very dark.
- There are very rapid changes in lighting.
- There is a moment of complete darkness at the end.
Sound
- The music is very loud.
- There are rapid changes in music.
Other
- There is a bright LED panel at eye level on which videos are shown.
- In one scene, a performer vomits a clear liquid.
Interaction
- The performers move around the room and may sit close to the audience or look at them. No interaction is expected from the audience.
Audience Area
- Seated grandstands
- Two beanbag seats available to book subject to availability
- Two wheelchair spaces available to book subject to availability
Early boarding
There is the option of early boarding. A loudspeaker announcement will be made.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Artistic direction, stage design, video, performance: Ceylan Öztrük
Performance: Julia Plawgo
Dramaturgical support: Isabel Schwenk
Assistant: Lena Pfäffli
Garments Creative Direction: Laura Beham, Prototypes
Technical direction, video: Demian Jakob
Video assistant: Pius Bacher
Technical consultant: Ralph Meier (AVMS Schweiz AG)
Sound design, music: Berk Çakmakçı, Thilda Prairie
Couture: Etienne Nicca
Production: Laeticia Blättler (Moin Moin Productions)
Production assistant: Eva Cabañas
Relaxed performance consultant: Swassthi Sarma
A production by Ceylan Öztrük in co-production with Sophiensæle and Gessnerallee Zurich. Supported by the City of Zurich Culture, Ernst and Olga Gubler-Hablützel Foundation, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation. The guest performance is supported by Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
Ceylan Öztrük is an artist who lives and works in Zurich. She completed a practice-based PhD program at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts in Istanbul in 2016, which she had started in 2014 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of the Post-Conceptual Art Practices program. She received her graduate (MFA, 2011) and undergraduate (BFA, 2006) degrees from the Fine Arts Faculty at Anadolu University. In 2022, she received Swiss Art Award.
Some of her exhibitions and performances are Wearing the Angels, Kissing the Room (Gessnerallee Zürich, 2023); Sculpture Garden (Geneva Biennale, 2022); Matter of non (FriArt Kunsthalle Fribourg, 2021); Orientalien (Gessnerallee Zurich, 2020); Am a Mollusk, too; re/producing Tangents (Longtang Zurich, 2020); IV. Berliner Herbstsalon (Berlin, 2019); Call me Venus (Mars Gallery Istanbul, 2016).
Ceylan Öztrük opens up accepted forms of knowledge and focuses on how it was built to shift a specific flow and thus become tools of the structures of power. She aims to break the flow of information in the mainstream with a multi-disciplinary approach, offering to setup new channels that co-exist with and sometimes replace the existing ones. She creates Autotheory and employs interventions in her practice as a methodology with which she tries to transform existing situations and frameworks.
