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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. 13 to 24
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 25 to 36
20 Fivesome | 21 Vase | 22 Leaf Amphore | 23 Sieve | 24 Weight | 25 Welcome | 26 Progress
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Welcome - Performer No. 25
Welcome
(< 1998). 1. Hospitable, free of guests,
gracious, to be welcome,
2. communicative,
sociable, chatty, talkative, open minded,
3. to offer the viewer of a drawing a place
(in the work), viewer-friendly. To take the
viewer seriously.
Ill. simplified chair. Can show up in false
perspective.

 Versions of the performer in chair-form (above) and armchair-form (below).
Welcome (armchair-form) - Performer No. 25 Version: armchair-form (2008)
Because the chair-form isn't easy to
draw, was in 2008 this armchair-form
established.
Ill. contour of an armchair - often with
interior-drawing.

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Hannes Kater: Willkomm, Darsteller Nr. 25 – Reihe von Varianten
Hannes Kater: Fortgang, Darsteller Nr. 26 – Reihe von Varianten
 Varianten des Darstellers
Hannes Kater: Fortgang, Darsteller Nr. 26 – Reihe von Varianten
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Progress - Performer No. 26
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Progress - Performer No. 26
Progress
(< 2000). 1. deployment, trend, goal,
tendency, possibility
,
2. stagnation, shutdown,
deadlock, dead spot
,
3. stuck, perplex.
Attention: the orientation determinate the
meaning!
a) the forward section of foot point to the right:
    progress, future
b) the forward section of foot point to the left:
    stagnation, regress

Ill. the form is deduced from a foot.
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Assembled performers Composed performers or performers with additives, used so often, that
they get the status of performers.
as_01 Arrows and arrow-tabs – by and on arrows placed add-ons
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To want sth. - Performer as_01 To want sth.
(< 2007). 1. to want sth., aspire, intend
or to mean sth.
,
2. desire, to feel like it,
to go for sth
.
Ill. a fragment from the performer
H
eart is placed on an arrow. Arrow
to the right.

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Rugrat - Performer as_01 Rugrat
(< 2007). boggler, to be scared shitless,
to shit a brick
.
Ill. someone does it in his trousers. Arrow
to the left.
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Fear - Performer as_01 Fear
(< 2007). 1. to become scared, to be petri-
fied,
2. (in) anxiety, dilemma, complication.
Ill. mix between a Heartbomb-fragment and
a rabbit. As a general rule arrow to the left.
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To have to - Performer as_01 To have to
(< 2007). 1. to be supposed to do sth.,
constrained, forced, unable to avoid,
unter Druck stehen,
2. to dismiss sth.,
sth. of no use.
Ill. a fragment of the performer
Heartbomb
is placed on an arrow.

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as_02 Ideology - Performer as_02 Ideology
(< 2002). excerpt, ideology, limited idea of
the world
.
Ill. Assembled performer: from an image
(Performer Nr. 09) and a shrouded globe,
from which only a small piece can be seen.
Varianten von: Ideologie - zusammengesetzter Darsteller Nr. 02 Ideologie - zusammengesetzter Darsteller Nr. 02
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as_03 Everyday life - Performer as_03 Everyday life
(< 1999). Normal 'World of life'; as well
as the cliche for mainstream and personal
routine world. 'Environment, normal environ-
ment, everyday life'.
Ill. assembled drawing: the performer,
House-Tree, and a globe and several circles,
which represent parts/excerpts of reality....

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as_04 Birdbrain - Performer as_04 Birdbrain
(< 2001). Chaos, confuse, overstretched,
crazy, disturbed, confused, mad
.
Ill. assembled drawing: negatively distorted
Brain (performer No. 1) inside a bird, neck-
craned.

 Versions of the performer with a 5-segment -brain (above) and a 4-segment "Archaic cerebration" (below).
Birdbrain - Performer as_04
 
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as_05 Dissect - Performer as_05 Dissect
(< 2001). dissecting, part of, share of, to
tear, to rip
.
Ill. Mostly combined with a sieve (Performer
Nr. 23
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