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Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animate objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them.
Inspired by fairy tales, where sometimes objects come to life and so become a projection screen for your own experiences and fantasies. In the performance Death is Certain Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists. The stalks are removed from the fruit, but they are not washed or stoned. Instead they are being killed. She takes care of this business manually, in a way which turns the everyday into something brutal.
The viewer is reminded of deaths from films, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in the face of sweet death at the kitchen table.


A performance by Eva Meyer-Keller
Production: Eva Meyer-Keller
With friendly support by: Vooruit Gent, Stuk Leuven
Thanks to: Alexandra Bachzetsis, Juan Dominguez, Mette Edwardsen, Cuqui Jerez, Martin Nachbar, Rico Repotente

Performance

Gallery Message Salon, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2002
B-visible, Vooruit, Gent, Belguim, November 2002
Tanzinitiative, Hamburg, Germany, January 2003
Reich und Berühmt, Podewil, Berlin, Germany, June 2003
Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland, July 2003
Capitals, Fundação Gulbenkian, Lisabon, Portugal September 2003
Klapstuk, Leuven, Belgium, October 2003
Dancepreview #1, Hau 2, Berlin, Germany, Novermber 2003 (special version)
Foreced Entertainment Portrait, Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany, December 2003
Les Particules, L'Usine, Geneva, Switzerland, December 2003
Blanco, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium, February 2004
Something raw, Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February 2004
Panacea Festival, Dansenshus, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2004.
Your private sky, Xing, Bologna, Italy, April 2004 www.xing.it
Soirées Nomades, Fondation Cartier, Paris, April 2004.www.fondation.cartier.fr
Drimast Festival, Antwerpen, Belgium, April 2004.
Motel Mosaique, Tent, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, The Netherlands, April 2004.
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany, May 2004.
Mugatxoan, San Sebastian, Spain, July 2004.
Uovo, Milan, Italy, September 2004
Hasselt, Belgium, September 2004
3 weeks with Pina Bausch, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany, October 2004 www.pact-zollverein.de
Belluard Bollwerk, Fribourg, Switzerland, October 2004
le Vivat, Lille + Armentiers, France, October 2004 www.goethe.de/fr/lil/frptanz.htm, www.levivat.net
Lift, 20th anniversary of Forced Entertainment, London, UK, October 2004 www.liftfest.org
CCN, Tours, France. November 2004 www.ccntours.com
Equilibrio, Auditorium, Rom, Italy. February 2005 www.auditoriumroma.com
Court Toujours, Poitiers, France. February 2005 www.letheatre-poitiers.com
Avantgarden, Trondheim, Norway. March 2005 www.avantgarden.no
Tweetakt, Utrecht, Holland. March 2005 www.tweetakt.net
HAU 3, Berlin. May 2005 www.hebbel-am-ufer.de
Factory Season, Tanzquartier Wien, Austria. May 2005 www.tqw.at
Politik der Vorstellung, Bochum, Germany. June 2005 www.siemensartsprogram.de
Prato, Toskana, Italy. June 2005 www.contemporaneafestival.it
Kunsthalle Kiel. July 2005
Rohkunstbau, Schloss Leuten, Brandenburg. August 2005 www.rohkunstbau.de
Videodance, Tessaloniki, Greece. September 2005 www.filmfestival.gr/videodance/
Lenz Rifrazioni, Parma, Italy. September 2005 www.lenzrifrazioni.it
Performance Tage, Gallery Nord, Berlin. October 2005
Thallin, Estonia, November 2005
Granit, Belfort, France, November 2005 www.theatregranit.com
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal, November 2005
Centro Cultural de Belem, Lissabon, Portugal, November 2005
CCA, Glasgow, UK, December 2005
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, December 2005,
New Moves International, Glasgow, February 2006 www.newmoves.co.uk
Crying out Loud, London, UK, February 2006 www.cryingoutloud.org
Blickfelder, Zürich, Schweiz, March 2006 www.blickfelder.ch
Tweetakt, Utrecht, Holland, April 2006 www.stormprojecten.nl
TNT, Bordeaux, France, May 2006 www.letnt.com
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, September 2006 www.printempsdeseptembre.com
Dschungel Wien, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Austria, November 2006 http://dschungelwien.at
Lesophantenfest, Hauptbücherei am Gürtel, Wien, Austria, November 2006 www.buechereien.wien.at/lesophantenfest
Schmerz, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Berlin, June + July 2007 www.hamburgerbahnhof.de
Festival delle Colline, Turino, Italy, June 2007www.festivaldellecolline.it
Vooruit, Gent, Belgium, September 2007 www.vooruit.be
Potager du Roi, Versailles, France, October 2007 www.potager-du-roi.fr
Performance Space, Sidney, Australia, October 2007 www.performancespace.com.au
Kaai Studios, Brussel, Belgium, November 2007 www.kaaitheater.be
Le Bateau Feu, Dunerque, France, November 2007 www.lebateaufeu.com
la Filature, Mulhouse, France, March 2008. www.lafilature.org
Perspectives Festival, Saarbrücken, June 2008. www.festival-perspectives.de
Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse, June 2008. www.theatregaronne.com
Napoli, Teatro Festival Italia, Neaples, June 2008. www.teatrofestivalitalia.it
Printemps de Danse, Angoulème, June 2008. www.printempsdanse.org
Lofoten Inernational Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway, August 2008. www.liaf.no
Festival ZXZW, Tilburg, September 2008. www.ns16.nl
Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, March 2009 www.sharjahbiennial.org
Paroles d'objets, Mont Seint Aignan, April 2009 www.scenationale.fr
Festival Bo:m, Seoul, Korea, April 2009 www.festivalbom.org
Zagreb, May 2009 www.eunic-croatia.eu
Markgrafentheater, Erlangen, May 2009 www.figurentheaterfestival.de
Okno Festival, Kana Teatr, Szczecin, Poland, 06. November 2009 www.kana.art.pl
Julia Stoschek Collection, Number Three: Here and Now, 27. February 2010 www.julia-stoschek-collection.net
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, 06. May 2010 www.fraclorraine.org
Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Norwich, UK, 15. + 16. May 2010 www.nnf10.org.uk
Iaspis, Öppet Hus, Stockholm, 24. + 25. September 2010 www.konstnarsnamnden.se
Manege de Reims, Frankreich, 09. +10. April 2011 waouh_site.pdf
Brighton Festival, the basement, Brighton, UK, 25. + 26. May 2011 www.brightonfestival.org




Video version

Tourette's , W139, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, November 2003
Out-Lounge, Takatsu Building, Tokyo, Japan, June 2005 www.adachitomomi.com
Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal, November 2005
Transmediale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, February 2006 www.transmediale.de
Stichting Noordkaap, Dordrecht, NL, May 2006
Dance Theatre Coalition, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, August 2006
Vivid, Birmingham, UK, September 2006, www.vivid.org.uk
Lucky Loft Galerie, Hamburg, September 2006
dedonderdagen #15, de Singel, Antwerpen, Belgien, Februar 2008 www.desingel.be

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