Presented as Live Performance:
Nezaket Ekici, solo show, „Everything we possess possesses us, too", Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, 7.6.-16.8.2015
Curator: Dr. Katja Blomberg, Nezaket Ekici

The artist stood on a pedestal above the Waldsee. She wears a long red costume. Through the costume run five water tube to the lakeside. The artist scoops seawater with a bucket and turns it with the aid of a filter into clean drinking water. She pour it in the tubes with glasses standing at their ends. The drinking water is caught in the glasses and is served to the audience.
The idea of the performance derives from a simple differentiation between things, that are existential for our live, like water and those things, which are in a way in our possession by means of contingency: can have, must not have. But this work also considers taking Water as something existential into possession. As water is a limited resource with the biggest potential to become the center topic for the future worldwide struggles, we have to find ways to bring it into possession to sustain our lives. As well the lake and the water belong to the house and the setting house and Water shows our dependence on water as source of living.

Steel scaffolding, Costume approx 8 x 6 m, water pump, bucket, rope, 5 filters, water reservoir, rowing boat, 5 carafes, 5 glasses, 5 tablets

1 hour

8 assistants: Nezaket Ekici with  Tamara Nilse, Luzie Sieckenius, Kimberly Reetz, Anita Brokmeier, Julian David Bolivar, Daniel Buchholz, Jenny Jakubik
Technical management: Paper Blattmacher, Micahel Roggen, Martin Eckert
Photos by Andreas Dammertz, Jürgen Erdmann, Alexa Daer
Camera: Branka Pavlovic
Edited by Branka Pavlovic
Thanks to: Haus am Waldsee - A place for the arts, Berlin, HKF Berlin, Kulturamt Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Dezentrale Kulturarbeit