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The Dictionary of Katers performers  [2.12]  [last Update: 2009-02]
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List of performers according to illustrations:
 Performer No. 01 to 12
Performer No. 25 to 36
 not used
anymore
 All performers:
1 Brain | 2 Heart | 3 Thoughts from below the belt | 4 Archaic cerebration | 5 Heartbomb | 6 Doing
7 House-Tree | 8 Mouth chain | 9 Picture | 10 Object | 11 Draw a blank | 12 Money
13 The big Other | 14 Bread Cloud | 15 Protagonist | 16 Knot | 17 Bun | 18 Field | 19 Foursome
Performer 13 to 24
 20 Fivesome | 21 Vase | 22 Leaf Amphore | 23 Sieve | 24 Weight | 25 Welcome | 26 Progress
*13 The big Other - Performer No. 13 The big Other
(< 2009). anything but you, constitutive
other,
The big Other is anything but you, some-
thing beyond the subject, that stands at
the end of each sense-giving construction
(significant chain). It organizes and struc-
tures a specific model of the world and
so also the subject, referring to this model.

The big Other exists - as it were tautolo-
gically - as its own effect and organizes
the symbolic within a field, by which it
cannot be a part of.

The classical form of The big Other is God.

Ill. "Other" in German is "Anderes" – and
the first letter of this word is – until now –
the basis of the sign.
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*14 Bread Cloud - Performer No. 14 Bread Cloud
(< 1997). Spiritual home, spiritual back-
ground, nourishing, motivating, source of
motivation. What a protagonist will or will
not allow - a cloud symbol without shading
or overlapping Bread Clouds signify unclear
relations.
Ill. stylized clouds. Originally feeding cloud
(life-donating rain) and cosmos/home.
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*15 Protagonist - Performer No. 15 Protagonist
(< 2008, before the meaning was only
"client").
Protagonist, (me, myself and...) I, doer,
main character.
Ill. Head with lung (for me the most
important organ) and usually an indica-
tion on or at the head.

Many variations!
Variants:
Client: the “I” of a
client from a made to
order drawing.
On the head:
1. a lanyard like on a
packed gift
2. the letter “K” for
the german word for
client ("Klient")
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*16
Knot - Performer No. 16
Knot
(< 1995). 'To remember something, a me-
mory, to take note, to be covered'.
Ill. derived from the form of a handker-
chief knot.
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*17 Bun - Performer No. 17 Bun
(< 2006). This actor stands for memories
of smells, meals or tactile experiences
from the childhood, which affect up-to-
date decisions, approximately in love
things or consumer divorces.

a) the "normal bun" (roll) (here in red)

b) the "conscious bun" (three variants
   in blue with different shade setting):
   in consciousness around the own in-
   fluenceableness by “roll” met decisions


Note: the more shade, the consciously
is a protagonist a "bun"...

Fig. the form of the performer is
reminiscent of a "Schrippe", a type
of bun in Berlin, Germany.
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*18 Field - Performer No. 18 Field
(< 1996). Field, in the sense of a sphere of
meaning, unit(s)-making, energy field, to
be connected, associative, collaborative –
often one notices or sees that something
is connected but cannot call it by name....
Ill. pattern, grid.
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*19 Foursome - Performer No. 19 Foursome
(< 1996). Performer with field character. Re-
presents: 'closed, defensive, cold, unsociable,
incommunicative, unapproachable, restrained,
reserved, withdrawn'.
Ill. incomplete fivesome - for more, see Five-
some.
Draft on the field-character of the Foursome.
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*20 Fivesome - Performer No. 20 Fivesome
(< 1996). Performer with field character. Re-
presents: communicative, curious, open, soft,
approachable.
Ill. the figure five is derived from human beings:
each 2 arms, legs and head - therefore a com-
plete, curious person. Because of the field
character’s unspecific, bursting, form, often
very large.
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*21 Vase - Performer No. 21 Vase
(< 1995). Source, give a gift, donate, pass on.
But also the opposite: pile up, collect, concen-
trate, store, carry together.
Ill. vessel, the more belly-shaped, the more
reliable. Always (!) depicted spatially - other-
wise (most) performers "Leaf Amphora" (Per-
former Nr. 22).
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*22 Leaf Amphora - Performer No. 22
Leaf Amphora
(< 2002). Collecting/donating and producing
connections, directing, network making.
Form often becomes mouth or eye-shaped.
Attention: appears in two versions!
Ill. shape somewhere between leaf and am-
phora, rarely spatial; almost never appears
alone.
a) still very similar to an amphora.
b) but closer to a mix of leaf and mouth.
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*23 Sieve - Performer No. 23 Sieve
(< 2000). Clear up, pluck, clean, clarify some-
thing.
But also: to pluck something.
Ill. stylized round sieve.
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*24 Weight - Performer No. 24 Weight
(< 1999). Load, saddle, oppress, to be op-
pressed, cramp, burden, strain, to be strained,
push, restrict, bother, wear out, exhaust,
stress, tax.
Ill. derived from a weight from mechanical
(analogue) scales.
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