EVA MEYER-KELLER and SYBILLE MÜLLER
Cooking Catastrophes
Performance on 13. July 2012: COOKING CATASTROPHES
Cooks: Kane Do, Jim Löfdahl, Kristoffer Nilsson, Andreas Lindberg, Mariana Silva
Varela, Filip Zubaczek, Peter Whaley
Camera: Marika Heidebäck
Design (menu): Byggstudio
Cooking Catastrophes is a performance, a cooking show, and a reflection on the future. Before the eyes of the audience, top chefs serve up a multi-course menu consisting of forest fires, torrential rivers, avalanches, meteorite impacts, exploding oilrigs, and crashing jumbo jets. They smell and stink, can be pleasant or uncomfortable, but still can be served to spectators for a taste test.
Seasoned with expert knowledge and captured by a live camera that evokes our visual memories of a news reportage, the performance plays with the strong contradictions between pleasure and fear.
A production by Mossutställningar Stockholm in coproduction with PACT Zollverein (Essen) and Goethe Institute Sweden
Funded by: Fonden Innovativ Kultur, Kulturrådet (Swedish Arts Council), Stiftelsen framtidens kultur (The Foundation for the Culture of the Future)
With the kind support of: Dansens Hus Stockholm
Eva Meyer-Keller
Eva Meyer-Keller (Germany/Sweden, 1972) works at the intersection of dramatic and fine arts and has performed at festivals, galleries, and theatres, from all across Europe to New York and Australia. Before completing a 4-year program in dance and choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam, she studied photography and fine arts at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin (HdK) and Central Saint Martins, Kings College in London. She lives and works in Berlin.
Eva Meyer-Keller’s activities are varied: She has presented her performances internationally, developed projects in collaboration with different artists and groups, danced for other choreographers, and realized video works. She participated in projects by Baktruppen, Jérôme Bel, and Christine De Smedt/les Ballets C de la B. Among her own works: the performances “Good Hands” (2005), “Death Is Certain” (2002), and “Ordinator” (2002); the installations “Volksballons” (Palast der Republik, 2004) and “Himmelskörper” (2001); the audio tour “Hearsay” (2002); the performance game “Schattenspiele” (2007/2008); and the video projects “Handmade” (2007), “Bauen nach Katastrophen” (2009/10), “Cooking Catastrophes” (2011), and “Pulling Strings” (2012).
www.evamk.de
Sybille Müller
Sybille Müller is a performer and choreographer living in Berlin. She studied dance at the Rotterdam Dance Academy (RDA) and later Strategic Communication and Planning at the University of the Arts in Berlin. In 2005, she was awarded a scholarship for the danceWeb program in Vienna. In addition to her own works, she collaborates with artists from different disciplines, for example: plischke&deufert, Isabelle Schad, Colette Sadler, Florian Bach, Volker März, and TWO FISH.
Select own works: 2008: “Unstable”, together with sculptor Florian Bach; “CORE – Maßarbeit”, a duet for two “unknown dancers” in the framework of a residency at ada-Studios Berlin; 2009: “Bauen nach Katastrophen”/“Von Menschen gemacht” (film, 2010) in collaboration with Eva Meyer-Keller, a piece by children for adults; 2010: “layer #1” (2010), a solo dance performance developed in collaboration with musician Laurent Dailleau.
She is currently working on the research project “Understanding Interaffectivity” at the Cluster of Excellence “Languages Of Emotions” at the Freie Universität Berlin.