Online Live Performance

In the live online performance "Transmission" ,Ekici deals with the QR Code. Shetries to create a connection between the real world and the virtual world. She uses thepattern of a QR Code, which is formative for the Internet age. The QR Code is two-dimensional and was developed in 1994 by Masahiro Hara in Japan. It´s purpose is to allow URL quick access to content on the Internet - be it text, photos, movies or music. In her performance, Ekici deals with various black sculptural objects, which shearranges on a white platform. The result is a 2x2 m large floor installation: an oversized QR Code. In her performance, Ekici brings the two-dimensional parts of the QR Code formoments from their abstract Internet world into the real world. By treating the graphicforms of the QR Code like three-dimensional sculptural elements in reality, theInternet world is drawn into reality. At first glance, the individual sculptural elements seem to be simple graphic andgeometic forms. But as a whole form they become a complicated and machine-readable pattern. Strictly speaking, every link on the Internet always remains on the Internet, as it canonly refer to content on the Internet. In this way, one can say, that every Internet link is self-referential. Ekici tries to symbolize this fact with the link she creates for theaudience. The viewers can scan the finished QR Code with their cell phone camera to follow thelink and watch the linked video. Thus, at the end of her performance, Ekici releasesthe audience back into the virtual world of the internet.(Text: Dr. Andreas Dammertz)

Online Live Video Performance 2020_HD MP4 16:9 , 4:01 min. time lapse , farbe, sound, Presented within the scope: Artists at Work with Nezaket Ekici, Transmission on Instagram Live, October 13, 2020 ISCP New York International Studio & Curatorial Program Nezaket Ekici, Artist in Resident, September 1 to November 30, 2020 Camera: Branka Pavlovic, Julian David Bolivar Editing: Branka Pavlovic Sound: Nezaket Ekici Assistant: Julian David Bolivar, Andreas Dammertz Costume Design: Nez

Live online Performance 45 min; Performance video Time Lapse 4.01 min

Senate Department for Culture and Europe in Berlin; New York City The Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany New York. Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; NYC COVID-19 Response and Impact Fund in The New York Community Trust; Hartfield Foundation; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; Stavros Nia