EVA MEYER-KELLER
(DE)
Death is certain
50′
Sarurday 25.11 | 19:00
Sunday 26.11 | 19:00
Space Baby, 80-82 Megalou Alexandrou St., Metaxourgio
Admission to all events is free.
Seat booking recommended, but seats available on spot, too.
A domestic splatter in the kitchen. An incredible visual proposal. A historical performance of the decade of 2000 in a special remake for MIRfestival.
With a background and practice in both visual arts and performance, German Eva Meyer-Keller has been breaking down the boundaries between the arts for two decades. Death is certain is an incredible visual proposition and an iconic performance artwork of the 2000s. It is a domestic kitchen splatter using as weapons humour and references to all the clichés one has ever seen in films, in videos, in the news… The childish cruelty with which it is executed (literally!) makes it even more rough. It will be presented in a special remake for MIRfestival where the creator transmits the performance on to her daughter Kajsa Repotente.
”The execution of the performance (small pun intended) is as perfectly simple, as lacking in frills or ornamentation as the structure. Meyer Keller moves between the tables in her deadly kitchen, moving from one killing to the next, in a mode that might be described as neutral or functional, but which in any case declines to signal comment on her task. She makes no drama of her decisions, no comedy or tragedy of her actions and no melodrama of her reactions. Slightly brusque, with a faint hint of the laboratory or cook’s assistant in her demeanour, her manner might best be described as that of someone simply doing a job. (…) Made me think a lot about the way that any work creates an economy of expectation –a set of parameters– which it then exploits. It’s great how sometimes the strictest of these restrictions create the most beautiful resonant things”.
Tim Etchells*
* Tim Etchells is an English artist and writer, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, an experimental performance company founded in 1984, one of the most distinguished companies which invented new forms of performing arts.
Eva Meyer-Keller (1972) lives and works in Berlin. She works at the interface of performance and visual art. Before graduating from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, she studied photography and visual art in Berlin (HdK) and in London (Central St. Martins and King’s College). Her artwork is distinctive due to its meticulous attention to detail. Her working method is marked by a constructive disregard for the imposition of any boundary between visual and performing arts. Within over twenty years of career, she has developed projects alone and in collaboration with other artists, such as Uta Eisenreich, Sybille Müller and Kate McIntosh. Since 2010 she has ongoing teaching positions at several degree programs across Europe.
Idea, initial performance: Eva Meyer-Keller
Performer for the version at MIR: Kajsa Repotente
Production: Eva Meyer-Keller
Diffusion: Giulia Messia
Thanks to: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar, Rico Repotente, Vooruit (Gent), Stuk (Leuven)
