Presented as Live Performance at: Exhibition, Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus, In Relation, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken 10.10.2014-8.1.2015 Curator: Andrea Jahn
Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus, In Relation, video Fossil and live-performance Clean Coal Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel 19.02.-13.06.2015 Curator: Drorit Gur-Arie

In the performance the two artists, Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus, work with coal slag. Once they have seen a coal mine near to Saarbrücken, they wanted to produce a work about the cleaning process of miners.
This happens every day in the same room: the miners arrive in their clean clothes, take them off and put on their dirty working clothes. When they come back from work they change their clothes in the same room. They take off the dirty ones, clean their bodies and put on their clean clothes and go home. The miners repeat this ritual every day.
Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus adapt this act by transforming it into a kind of team cleaning session. They get dirty and clean themselves afterwards.
In the courtyard of Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken the audience saw two bathtubs, a pile of coal slag/black stones and soap. The artists carry the coal slag/black stones from one place to the other meanwhile they getting dirty. After that they have a bath with clean water and wash their dirty clothes and their bodies..
This Performance belongs to the “In Relation” project by Nezaekt Ekici and Shahar Marcus. The artworks for the “In Relation” project take place in the landscape and in the dessert, in the dead see, at “Halde” Lydia (near Saarbrücken) and at Schlossberghöhlen Homburg. Up to now the project includes the following performances: "Sandclock", "Salt Dinner", "Methexis", "Salt and Ever", "Floating Ourselves", "Fossils", "Clean Coal", "Fields of Breath".

2 bathtubs, water, coal/stone, soap, bathroom equipment (sponge, brush, etc...), 4 steel buckets, costumes, spotlights

Photos by Kamila Kolesniczenko
Light: Octavian Marutiu
Technique: Hermann Können, Wilhelm Wahner
Organisation: Kamila Kolesniczenko, Sandra Neitzel
Camera and editing: Sanchirchimeg Vanchinjav, Francois Schwamborn