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"Rutengang (taking the rod) "

Performance Installation 2019 - Presented within the framework of the event: Via Nova Kunstfest Corvey Long ago, far away _ the Heliand , Corvey Castle 31.August - 29. September 2019, Curated by Brigitte Labs_Ehlert Premiere Performance : 31.8.2020 Installation 31.August - 12. September 2019

         
         

Concept
The focus of this year's art festival under the motto 'long ago - far away' is the old German biblical poem Heliand, which was written in Corvey around 850 and spread from here. In her performance and installation RUTENGANG, Nezaket Ekici makes special reference to it. Heliand was written to make Christianity understandable to the compulsively baptized Saxons. The story of Jesus was therefore transferred into a form comprehensible to the Saxons and reenacted. Main features of the new text are the used stave rhyme and the transformation of the story of Jesus and his disciples into the fortified understanding of the Saxons. Heliand tries to build a bridge between the world of the Saxons, marked by war, closeness to nature and belief in many gods, and the culturally foreign ethics of love of the enemy, as formulated in the Sermon on the Mount. The artist Nezaket Ekici refers especially to these two main characteristics, the staff rhyme and the transformation of a cultural achievement. The vibrating staff she uses in the performance, resembling a dowsing rod, is meant to remind us of archaic natural beliefs as it can also be understood as a weapon or bishop's crook. Last but not least, the artist refers to the fact that the word 'letter' is derived directly from nature; the first characters were carved from small wooden sticks, mostly beech. In her performance, the artist searched for the linguistic treasures of Heliand in specially piled up mounds of earth and, with the support of a choir, made them audible. The visitors can read the ten texts from Heliand while walking through the cloister. They have lost none of their great significance for our humanistic standards - on the contrary: they are topical

Equipment
Flexible, 10 heaps of earth, 10 Heliand writing banners written on textile fabric, costumes, Choir :Singers

Dauer
1,5 h

Vorlage
Camera and editing : Branka Pavlovic Photos: Andreas Dammertz Singer: Hans-Hermann Jansen Choir: Falkenberg church choir Choir direction: Svenja Rissiek Technical advisor: Michael Funk, Ernst Ehlert Technical assistance: Sabine Fischer Costumes design: Nezaket Ekici Schneider: Süleymann Helpers: Steffen Schneider, Matthias Knops Press: Cornelia Jentzsch Nezaket Ekici thanks Viktor Duke of Ratibor