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Mother of Performance Art:
Nezaket Ekici’s Worldwide Nomadic Performance
Nezaket Ekici In Dialogue With Dr. Lu Xinghua
25 MAY 2014
At Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Videos, as an art impact, develop rapidly and influence all the other art forms. The existent and development of moving image has changed the history of art in 20 century. Therefore, communication between the East and the West in an open and modern manner is needed.
Time_Art_Impact Project is an academic exchange and corporation between Minsheng Art Museum and MOMENTUM. Artist Nezaket Ekici and professor Lu Xinghua are invited to Minsheng Art Museum as guests for the first talk, The Last Queen: Nezaket Ekici’s Worldwide Nomadic and Performance. Before the talk, there is a two-hour exhibition of Nezaket’s works, Veiling and Reviling and The Tube. With the exhibition and the talk, audience can understand the whole process and the art piece itself with their own emotion and intellectual, meanwhile, controversial topics and complex emotion behind art, which might be twisted and embellished, will be discussed.
Nezaket Ekici (Kirşehir, 1970) is a Turkish-born performance and video artist based in Germany, who holds a Master’s degree in Performance Art from the Marina Abramovic Institute. Through performances marked by a strong and crisp visual language, Ekici confronts culturally specific attributes of femininity, contesting their agency on the body. Diligently undergoing and/or withstanding the habits dictated by these objects, she questions the opposition between confinement and concealment, public and private, safety and repression. Through a practice largely grounded in durational performance and most distinctively in psycho-physical endurance and tenacity, Ekici’s work interconnects everyday elements to form a total work of art — a Gesamtkunstwerk.
To read Artist Dossier click here: NEZAKET EKICI ARTIST DOSSIER
Lu Xinghua is Associate Professor in the department of Philosophy in Tongji University. He is an expert in French philosophy with a focus on political philosophy, aesthetics and art theory. He is proficient in English, French, and German, writing on art, politics and philosophy. Entering Chinese contemporary art circles in 2009, he has given numerous speeches at art galleries and museums, in addition to planning, organizing and participating in various contemporary art exhibitions and conferences.
Interpreter: Jin Wen, associate professor in the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures
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