EX-MÊKH STAGE AROUSAL 2
Impression of the
project:
KRAATZ is an international
artist collective
KRAATZ presents Idioliths at EP7 Paris
As part of this project EX-MÊKH was invited to
present their video ‘Stage Arousal’
The video was on
display on the façade of the building EP7
Kraatz
The exhibition on the facade
of EP7 Paris (with invited artists EX-MÊKH and Sabine Bürger)
is accompanied by a weekend of performances, workshops, and an official
curatorial ceremony around the opening.
According to a dictionary not
yet written, an idiolith is a short—sometimes very
short—film illustrating a compound word, phrase, or saying that includes a
lithic element (such as, in English, “stone” or “rock”).
For EP7, artists’ collective KRAATZ
has reimagined an anthology of its simple films as an architectural
installation.
Episode 4: Les Idiolithes runs continuously on EP7’s huge screens from
September 3-16.
Two days of performances,
workshops, and ceremonies has been organized around the opening of the
exhibition on Friday September 3. For the full program: scroll down.
KRAATZ is:
Louise Crawford, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Stéphan Guéneau, Forbes Morlock,
Isolde Nagel and Marian Wijnvoord. The members of
KRAATZ share a desire to spur on their own work, to collaborate on each other’s
work, and to engage in collective work.
KRAATZ: www.kraatzonline.wordpress.com
About Idioliths: https://kraatzonline.wordpress.com/episode-3-idioliths-2/
EP7: www.ep7.paris
KRAATZ invites:
Dutch artist collective Ex Mêkh: http://www.ex-mekh.nl
and visual
artist Sabine Bürger: http://www.sabine-buerger.de
EX-MÊKH is: Kees Koomen, Ellen Rodenberg, Maarten
Schepers
Friday September 3 2021
Programme (all events @ EP7)
19H Conversation
with a Stone about Freud’s Correspondence about Stones
University
professor Forbes Morlock discusses Freud’s journeys to the Dolomites, the Harz
Mountains, Rome and Athens with the star of Les Idiolithes
1930H Sounding
the Stone
Experimental
musician Yorgos Dimitriadis uses percussion,
microphones and electronics to find the stone’s groove
Saturday September 4 2021
Cérémonie de la remise officielle du monolithe
The formal
return by KRAATZ of the stone at the centre of the Les
Idiolithes installation to the Dutch artists’
group EX-MÊKH.
The Weight and Brief Encounters
Two performances by EX-MÊKH’s Kees Koomen, the first with the newly returned stone and
the second mixing the myth of Sisyphus with the artist’s
experiences in France this summer.
Arousal - the
Workshop
An interactive performance by Ellen Rodenberg,
introducing the group’s intervention @ EP7
The works after participation
Context and subject of the project:
EX-MÊKH was invited by the international
kraatz_collective to show work on the 12 screen facade of EP7 in Paris.
Alongside the screening there where performances during
the weekend of 3 an 4th of september.
In which the main figure is; A Stone.
'The Reason why' is the title for an earlier
collaboration between @kraatz_collective and #exmekh. During Platforms Project
in Athens in May 2021, Kraatz was showing the video Idioliths online at the
booth of EX-MÊKH.
The stone as subject and object in there video, was the
link with EX-MÊKH. The stone was used by EX-MÊKH’s Kees Koomen in his
performance in Berlin.
After the installation and performances the work
#FeMaler_u7_berlin from Ellen Rodenberg, Maarten Schepers and Kees koomen was
on show for a month.
Because of the lockdown in the autumn in Berlin we
coudn't collect the work. The stone and other work stayed in Berlin.
In februari during the lockdown in NL EX-MÊKH made the
video Stage Arousal for the @Platformsproject NET in Athens. We invited Kraatz
and @atrans with the question to make a connection.
The first meeting with Kraatz was on invitation by
ATRANS in 2019. During a weekend with performances in Der Haus der Statistik in
Berlin Kraatz and Ex-mekh performed in a small room with a Vitrine.
https://kraatzonline.wordpress.com/les-idiolithes-programme-2/
https://chmkoome.wordpress.com/2021/09/04/les-idiolithes-ii/
https://chmkoome.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/les-idolithes/
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