Artist: Eva Meyer-Keller (Germany)

Eva Meyer-Keller (Freiburg, Alemania, 1972) works at the interface of performance and visual art. Before graduating from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam she studied photography and visual art in Berlin (HdK) and London (Central St. Martins and Kings College). Her artwork is distinctive due to its meticulous attention to detail. Eva often uses everyday objects from her immediate surroundings, things that she finds at home, in the supermarket or in the tool shed. This inevitably lends the work an obsessive, domestic aesthetic. Her working method is marked by a constructive disregard for the imposition of any boundary between visual and performing arts.
Her works include the performances DEATH IS CERTAIN (2002 performed in more than 200 venues around the world), PULLING STRINGS (KunstenFestivaldesArts, Brussels, 2013), the installations VOLKSBALLONS (2004 Palast der Republik, 2013 Centre Pompidou-Metz) und HANDMADE (NGBK Berlin, Bonniers Konsthall Stockholm, Palais de Tokyo Paris).
Eva develops projects alone and in collaboration with other artists, such as Uta Eisenreich, Sybille Müller and Kate McIntosh. She also lends herself as a devisor and performer to other choreographers and works as a dramaturgical advisor/ mentor.
She has worked with Baktruppen, Jérôme Bel, Christine De Smedt/ les Ballets C de la B (9×9), Juan Dominguez, Kate McIntosh and Agnes Meyer-Brandis.

Since 2010 she has ongoing teaching positions at several degree programs across Europe. HZT/UdK in Berlin, DOCH (Dans och Circus Högskolan) and the MA course ‘The Autonimous Actor’ in Stockholm, ZHdk in Zürich. For the winter semester 2013/14 she was guest professor at the university of Hildesheim.
 
Sito Web: http://evamk.de/
 

Artwork: Pulling Strings

Pulling Strings is a Site-specific Installation. For the version that will be showed in Santiago, Eva Meyer-Keller, Sheena McGrandles and a group of artists from Santiago will be settling into a space for a number of days. The architecture as well as the found objects become actors, mobilised by string into a performative portrait of the space.
Each artist will research in her/his own. Found objects such as windows, doors, tiles, suspended ceiling tiles, blinds, bricks, bushes are brought into motion using the Pulling Strings principle of tying strings to probe their potential for action. Choreographic miniatures allow the architecture of the house and it’s now-dysfunctional but once everyday inventory to appear in a new light. The once empty and abandoned building becomes a home – this time for animate objects – directing the attention to what was otherwise simply accepted and overlooked. The individual scenes in the different rooms are each directed by the individual project participants.

Place: Casa Esquina Plaza Yungay

Address: Santo Domingo 2670

Type of Protection: Typical Zone/Historical Monument

The property located at the intersection of Santo Domingo Street and Sotomayor was built in 1839 by the architects Jacinto Cueto and Juan de la Cruz Sotomayor. The house, made of adobe, was severely damaged by the earthquake of 2010.

This type of architecture is characteristic of the urban awakening of this area of Santiago. The building is in an area that was declared a Typical Zone in 2009 and today has different styles of architecture, such as: neo-Gothic, neo-Colonial, Classical, Medieval, Republican and Neoromantic, among others.