Fatma Çolakoğlu stated that they were examining the concept of performance beneath art by focusing on research, questioning and production. The new web project “Turkey Performance Study 1984-1999”, conducted with a similar focus to the “90s on the Stage” exhibition, was made accessible with the support of Salt. During the long-term research process, the focus was on the performances held in Turkey from 1984 to 1999. Including events and performances, the documentation compiled through this process was presented to the public for the first time. 

Compiled from different studies, the project aimed to shed light on the period between 1984-1999, and also to stand as a source of reference by creating an inventory that would be improved with new knowledge and sources on performance in Turkey. It was stated by Amira Akbıyıkoğlu that the idea of creating an archive on the performance that took place in the 1990s emerged during the research process.

The exhibition and website project was a part of “Our Many Europes” project of the European Confederation of Museums L’Internationale, of which Salt is a member.

The project approaches every detail from the emergence of Theatre Studies Laboratory as a part of İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres in 1988 thanks to Ayla Algan, Erol Keskin and Bilsak tutor Beklan Algan, whose path crossed with Bilsak Theater Workshop and who participated in the events in the 90s when the concept of interdisciplinary newly emerged, to the parallel foundation of Ya Da Theater in 1991 by Hüseyin Katırcıoğlu, an experienced figure in theater and television. Another important detail in the archive is the “mass theater” example, a collaborative work of professional actors with local people without acting experience, actualized by Katırcıoğlu, who was the executive editor of Assos Performing Arts Festival until his death in 1999. The festival was held every autumn for two years and made a stage out of every corner of Behramkale Village in Çanakkale. However, it was not held in 1998 due to the structuring requests of the founding members and was organized for the last time in 1999 with the death of Katırcıoğlu. It is stated that the web project that was focused on the performances held during the period of its implementation and on performance art in Turkey.