Death is
Certain
A Performance by
Eva Meyer-Keller
Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animated objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them.
Inspired by fairy tales, where sometimes objects come to life and so become a projection screen for your own experiences and fantasies. In the performance Death is Certain Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists. The stalks are removed from the fruit, but they are not washed or stoned any more. Instead they are being killed. She takes care of this business manually, in a way which turns the everyday into something brutal. The viewer is reminded of deaths from films, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in face of the sweet death at the kitchen table.
Ten years after its premiere at the Schwankhalle, Eva Meyer-Keller returns with her timeless splatter performance. This time, she is passing the performance on to her daughter, Kajsa Repotente.
The Artist
Eva Meyer-Keller is a Berlin-based artist who works at the intersection 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 London (Central St. Martins and Kings College). Her approach is characterized by a constructive disregard for the boundaries between visual arts, performing arts, and science. Through choreographed sequences of actions, she creates images that draw the observers’ attention to what has always been there: the small things that are often overlooked.
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Credits
Concept: Eva Meyer-Keller
Featuring: Kajsa Repotente
Production: Eva Meyer-Keller
Special thanks to: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar, Rico Repotente, Vooruit (Ghent), Stuk (Leuven)