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"Zeitgeist"

Depicting Action: An International Exhibition of Time Based Live Art, 18 Street Art Center, Santa Monica/LA, 15.7. - 29.9.2006
Ausstellungsreihe: Nezaket Ekici (Zeitgeist) und Jeff Huckleberry: 2-7.9.2006; Gruppenausstellung 16-29.9.2006
Organisiert von Jamie Mc Murry
Nezaket Ekici "Self Diversity" Sabanci Unervisität, Kasa Gallerie, Istanbul 8.11. - 30.12.2006, kuratiert von Derya Yücel

         
         

Concept
The motivation for the performance/video installation "Zeitgeist" is to come to know a definite local area in a better way. The artist does not want to copy Kleeschees about what a special local area is like. She would like to regard a city with impartial eyes of a stranger. An artistic work is shown, which does not show a city, like it appears on high polished pictures, but is real. In this work the artist presents herself on video in a ego-shouting way. She is interested to see the city running around and filming in moment. The artist works out the impressions a viewer collects and shows them afterwards in a following performance to the viewer, who now can keep track of what the artist experienced. The artist runs for 2 hours through the city of Santa Monica and again two hours in front of the projection in the Exibitionroom of Galerie 18 Street - she keeps running on the same place. Her face is projected additionally Live as a close up onto the wall beside the film. Thus she creates a connection between the film and the Life situation, which is interlocked in itself. The viewer sees the city on a film and hears noises from the environment. In the second projection of my face and by the Live performance of running on the same place, the viewer sees several time levels folded into each other. He sees the past in the film, the present by the close up of the face, which is still a artificial projection and the real present Person running In front of the projection. The effort of 2 hours running will appear in the face of the artist.

Equipment
2 Beamer, 2 DVD Player, Spotlight, camera, Steadistick, Sport dress

Dauer
2,5 h

Vorlage
Video;
Camera: Nezaket Ekici
Photos: Jamie Mc Murry; Alejandra Herrera Silva; Nezaket Ekici