They are encounters under extreme circumstances: in the Dead Sea, in the desert, underground, as partners, in confrontation, in a fight for survival. In Relation is a joint project by the Turkish-German performance artist Nezaket Ekici (* 1970) and the Israeli artist Shahar Marcus (* 1971). Their physical meeting in the various performances that the two have developed and realized since 2012 symbolizes a grappling with elementary questions, such as one’s own position in time, space, culture, and religion. As performers with many years of experience internationally, they employ their own bodies as a medium to build up forces and energies, to resolve tensions and conflicts and make art about them. By pushing their own physical limits, they cause their works to revolve in no small measure around the limits of cultural and political difference.

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