Collaboration Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus - Performance Installation 2016 - ZAZ Festival – an international festival for performance-art Performance Art Platform (Miklat 209), Tel Aviv, Israel, 08. – 17.12.2016

Nezaket Ekici and Shahar Marcus are separated in their new performance by a wooden wall, which is arranged in such a way that the audience sees both artists from two sides: two bodies on the right and left and in between a wall. The wall is hard to break through. Nevertheless they are sawing the wall with a woodcut in the middle. They move in the room because the wood panel is on wheels. The audience sees both artists, sometimes quite in the corner in the room. Their bodies are stretched, bent, lying, until the plate is cut through. There are two wooden plates in the end and the artists look at this action again. The two Artists were separated by a wall which represents a boundary between culture, religion, body, language and nation. The wall is thus the description of a symptom that structures today's time. Almost one could say that the wall, which has fallen in "Berlin 1989 is re-established and becomes visible in many places in the world: Korea, USA-México, Europe-Africa, Israel etc.

Wooden plate, wheels under the wooden plate, big hand saw, several spotlights

45 min

Photo: Alejandra Herrera Silva; Camera by ZAZ Festival Tel Aviv