Performance Installation 2021 Live Performance In the context of the exhibition: To the End of the World and Over the Edge - with Adolf Wölfli", 28.4-15.8.2021, Museum Villa Stuck Closing weekend (from 13.08-15.08.2021) Live performance on Sun. Aug. 15, 2021, from 4 to 9 p.m., in the Old Studio of the Artists' Villa Stuck

Nezaket Ekici lies on the floor of Villa Stuck. Thousands of pages of paper surround her in stacks. She begins methodically and rapidly working through them, striking each page with one mark of coloured pencil. Presented for the first time live at Villa Stuck, Nezaket Ekici’s performance installation “25000” is inspired by Adolf Wölfli’s immense oeuvre. Having contiguously created 1460 collages and 25,000 drawings, poems and musical compositions over the course of 35 years, Wölfli stands as one of the most productive artists of his time. He often worked almost to exhaustion, creating several works of art everyday as if on a conveyor belt. In his temporally uniform work one can recognize a meditative attitude, which had a stabilizing effect on the artist Wölfli. The performance of Nezaket Ekici tries to compress this bundled artistic energy, creating in 5 hours an impression of Adolf Wölfli's constant creative power. The artist is forced to go to her physical and psychological limits to give expression to the constancy of his work. With each page she spends approximately 3 seconds, scoring it quickly before tossing it in the air. She attempts to condense time itself here: showing the intensity and length of creation art takes and would’ve taken Wölfli. Ekici provides the audience with an intensified and powerful look into how artistic creation itself is thought of, and the labour which is poured into it. (Text Edited: Jono Wang Chu)

6 bases, DINA4 paper, costume, spotlights, coloured pencils, sharpener Submission:

6 h

Camera and Video Edinting Janina Totzauer Costume design and costume cutting: Nezaket Ekici Photo: Andreas Dammertz Curator: Roland Wenninger