EX-MÊKH STAGE AROUSAL 2021 Paris
EX-MÊKH was invited by the international artists-collective
Kraatz
to show the video ‘Stage Arousal’
on the 12 screen facade of EP7 in Paris.
Alongside the screening there where
performances during the weekend
of 3 an 4th of september 2021
KRAATZ invites: Dutch artist
collective Ex-Mêkh
and visual artist Sabine Bürger, 2021 Paris
3.9.2021
Programme:
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
Sounding the Stone
Experimental
musician Yorgos Dimitriadis
uses percussion,
microphones and
electronics to
find the stone’s groove
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.
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
These worked and reworked sheets where
later archived and filed under: Aide-Mémoires-Erf in
2026
See more about this KRAATZ / EX-MÊKH collaboration:
EP7
https://kraatzonline.wordpress.com/episode-3-les-idiolothes/
Video and thoughts
https://kraatzonline.wordpress.com/episode-3-idioliths/
Performances Kraatz
https://kraatzonline.wordpress.com/performances-with-a-stone/
Performances EX-MÊKH, Kees Koomen, Ellen Rodenberg
https://chmkoome.wordpress.com/2021/09/04/les-idiolithes-ii/
https://chmkoome.wordpress.com/2021/09/03/les-idolithes/
The story (context) behind this project:
'The Reason why' is the title for an earlier
collaboration
between @kraatz_collective and exmekh.
During Platforms Project in Athens in May 2021,
A Trans was invited by EX-MÊKH
for the online EX-MÊKH booth 41 at Platforms Project,
Athens.
A Trans invited Kraatz
and they made the video ‘Idioliths’ for the online booth 41 of EX-MÊKH.
/platform/ex-mekh/project/ex-mekh-idioliths/
The stone as subject and object in the video
of Kraatz
was the connection that led to EX-MÊKH.
The stone was used by Kees Koomen
in his opening performance
‘knocking on Heavens Door’ in Berlin ( A Femmes
City Berlin ).
See also: /a-trans-feat-ellen-rodenberg-ex-mekh-femaler/
Because of the Covid-19 lockdown in the autumn
in Berlin the work and the stone stayed in Berlin.
In februari during the lockdown in The Netherlands
EX-MÊKH made the video ‘Stage Arousal’
for the @Platformsproject NET in Athens.
We invited Kraatz and @atrans with a ‘connection’ question.
We met the Kraatz collective in 2019
The first meeting with Kraatz was on invitation by A Trans in
2019.
During a weekend with performances
in Der Haus der Statistik in Berlin,
Kraatz and EX-MÊKH performed
in a small high sealing room with one big Vitrine.
See for the video’s of EX-MÊKH, KRAATZ, A TRANS
The EX-MÊKH site:
2021 Stage Arousal, exhibitions http://www.ex-mekh.nl
Who is?
KRAATZ : 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.
www.kraatzonline.wordpress.com
EX-MÊKH:
Maarten Schepers, Ellen Rodenberg, Kees Koomen
A Trans: Isolde Nagel