“Death is certain” by Eva Meyer-Keller (Germany)
By Stefano • May 19th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 26, 2008 8:10 pm | a | June 28, 2008 8:10 pm |
DEATH IS CERTAIN
(36 modi per torturare una ciliegia)
performance by Eva Meyer-Keller
production Eva Meyer-Keller
from 26th to 28th June
21.10
duration 40′
location: Real Albergo dei Poveri
with friendly support by Vooruit Gent, Stuk Leuven
thanks to Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar, Rico Repotente
assistance Napoli Martina Schumacher
The performance could also be entitled 36 ways to torture a cherry, as cherries, together with a wide range of daily objects, are the main characters of this performance.
Drawing inspiration from the fairy tales in which objects animate and enable us to project our experiences and fantasies, Eva Meyer-Keller lets spectators live two performances: the “small” performance, occurring under everybody’s very eyes, and the “tragic” performance, fruit of imagination. Committing a systematic murder of cherries, the German artist turns a simple daily action into an atrocity. Drawing from a shared cultural heritage, the performance ranges over cinematographic and literary images of the death, including actual executions.
Death is certain is the result of the wish to show something that can be easily accessed to: through the construction of minimal situations, the artist leaves to the spectator’s imagination the task to complete and interpret the performance.
Undoubtedly in Death is Certain Eva Meyer-Keller uses cherries to talk about something else; what is interesting about this work is the evocation of something that is somewhere else. In front of such a performance, it is no use wondering whether it is an installation, a visual art, or a celebration of the daily life. Surely enough it generates conflicting emotions; that’s what matters.
Eva Meyer-Keller (1972) is a German performer who has performed her works in Europe and America, in theatres and art galleries. After studying photography and visual arts in Berlin and London, she graduated at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam. She is a versatile artist who often works on more than one project simultaneously, sets up performances, organises festivals and events and makes video works. She also developed a number of projects with other artists such as: Baktruppen, Jerome Bel, Christine De Smedt/les Ballets C de la B…
Her works include: Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, Proper Dancing in the Background, Ordinator, It’s a kind of magic, Holiday Shot, Volksballons, Good Hands, Handmade, Hauskonzert. Building after catastrophes, performed for the first time in December 2007 in Parma, is the result of the collaboration between Eva Meyer-Keller and Sybille Müller with two Italian children.
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