Performance Installation 2021, Premiere Live Performance "Dem Himmel so Nah" Meta Theater Moosach 18.9.2021

The Live Performance "Dem Himmel so nah" is inspired by the painting "Die Himmelfahrt Mariae" by Lippo Memmi (around 1340, poplar wood 72,5x32,5 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich). To get close to heaven is not easy and to be holy even more so. As a human being, St. Mary Mother of God was a woman who worked hard every day. She comes closer to heaven by her way of living and this principle of a "God-fearing life" applies equally in many religions. From the Kama teachings in Buddhism, to the Tao (the right way) in Asian Shintoism, to the Abrahemitic religions. The performance deals with religious ascent, but rather with the question of right living. In the performance, Ekici is seen wearing a robe in the room. In the center of the room are placed 7 microphones. Spotlights shine on the microphones. Furthermore, there are many bales of straw on one side of the room. Ekici pulls one bale of straw after another (15 /20 kg) into the center of the room and begins to pile them up. From time to time she goes to the respective microphones and sings a tone or makes body noises. The sounds are recorded and played back in variations and slowly rearranged into a "choral song." Slowly Ekici builds up a pyramid of straw bales, again and again she descends to fetch new straw bales. When all the straw bales are built, Ekici reaches the ceiling of the room and looks up towards the sky. The straw shines in the lighting as if it were gold.

Straw bales approx. 50 pieces a 15/20 kg. size approx. 80x50x40 cm 7 microphones 4 -5 theater spotlights music equipment (mixer, amplifier, sound boxes recording equipment)

1,5 h

Idea, concept, performance and voice: Nezaket Ekici Live sound: Pit Holzapfel Light: Axel Tangerding Costume design: Nezaket Ekici, Roubs Style Live Atream/Camera/Editing: MichaeleSeifert & Co. Production: Meta Theater Moosach Assistant: MichaeleSeifert Photo: Andreas Dammertz Curator: Axel Tangerding, Wolger Pöhlmann The film documentation of this premiere will be shown on Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25, 2021, both at 7:00 pm at the Meta Theater. The artist will b