Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor

A Memoir of the Future

Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer

“A Memoir of the Future” took shape following the October 7 events, and is based on one chapter from the three semi-autobiographical novellas by the British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, “A Memoir of the Future”: “The Dream” (1975), “The Past Presented” (1977), and “The Dawn of Oblivion” (1979). 

The piece amalgamates different realms – text, theater, art exhibition, music, and a clinic – into one space. A space that is commentary on the first chapter in the novella “A Memoir of the Future,” its layers and hidden secrets, by means of: 

Faithful reading of the original texts by four readers and an actor;

sound, vocals, and music;

an exhibition of objects that are carefully chosen as “archeological findings” of sorts, a mental inventory of mini-data that present a riddle, aphorism;

set and space design: a tank, womb, temple, receptacle. 

 

Bion defined the text he wrote towards the end of his life as a “psycho-embryonic attempt to write an embryo-scientific account of a journey from birth to death.” It can be seen as a fictional psychoanalytic autobiography, both the background and the infrastructure of his conceptualizations in the field of psychoanalysis. Born in India, Bion lost his mother at a very young age, and was raised at a boarding school. During World War I he was a 19-year-old soldier, and served as a tank commander in the British Army. In World War II, he treated shell-shocked soldiers evacuated from the front line to a military hospital. Bion’s psychoanalytic thought was shaped by these events and the attempt to understand the traumas he experienced in the war.

Read verbatim, Bion’s text is a fictional dialogue between different characters and voices that merge into a manifestation of the subconscious. The fictional discussion is not registered as a unified narrative across a historical or developmental sequence, but as a conversation between a fetus, an eight-year-old, a thirty-year-old, a 42-year-old, a psychoanalyst, Leonardo da Vinci and others. The scene is in fact a simultaneous unfolding of different manifestations of the “self,” which engage in an almost delirious dialogue with one another.

At first, the text seems chaotic, but a close reading reveals its hidden logic: primary mental materials, pre-verbal images alongside transcribed materials and processed and articulated verbal expression. These exemplify the moments of trauma, in which language falls away from the body and the body encounters the horror of incomprehension. 

The 45-minute-long piece – the duration of a psychoanalysis session – uses Bion’s original text as a textual space, offering it an interpretation with images, voice, music, and space design in an attempt to represent the chaotic subconscious. A part of the space is an exhibition of objects, some created especially for the event by various artists. 

The outcome is a caesura, an event that oscillates between fetal stage, birth, life and death, where incomprehension is tantamount to the surplus of meanings held between the folds and layers of the text. 

The piece wishes to express the sense of chaos and loss of meaning and path following the October 7th massacre; days experienced as unraveling from a stable and safe reality, and a collision with reality without the protection of language. 

Transforming a collective traumatic event into a personal one.

 

An audience participation event. 

 

Play Duration: 1 hour

Pre registration – Please send your full name, phone number, how many participants (up to 2), date and time to hilabh@musrara.co.il

Tuesday 28.05 19:45
Tuesday 28.05 21:30
Wednesday 29.05 19:45
Wednesday 29.05 21:30
Thursday 30.05 19:45
Thursday 30.05 21:30

Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer

Reading and acting: Avi Pnini

Readers: Avi Pnini, Zehava Yuriya, Efrat A. Kaplan

Design and lighting: Arie Berkowitz

Music and sound: Alexandre Cruz Sesper

Featured artists: Arie Berkowitz, Dalia Hai Acco, Adi Dahan, Etti Abergel, Alexandre Cruz Sesper, Jacques fhima, Michal Tamir, Ori Drumer

Text translation: Dr. Shoey Raz

Words envelope: Efrat A. Kaplan

Program Timeline
Yoni Silver
Musical Act
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
The Calamity Dwellers
Musrara Choir
Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Preformed by Modern Ensemble of Musrara New Music Department
Sharon Kantor, Adam Sheflan and Dudik Opp
Experimental Trio of drums and two guitars.
Overwhelmed
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Noam Enbar
Musical Act
Nightworld
Zohar Shafir and Kim Teitelbaum
Maqam Music Ensemble
Students from the Department of New Music
Latency
Grisha Shakhnes Musical Act
Internal Destruction
Shaul Dahan Musical Act
Habibi Yessa'ed Awkatu [May My Love's Days Be Joyous]
Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller Musical Act
Flux Venus Elettrikais
Eryck Abecassis
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
After Musrara Mix
Dark Mix at the Mazkeka with Ron Sheskin
Copy Farm
video installation
Department of Visual Communication
Exhibition
Depressing Video Art from Israel #3
Video art series Curated by Roy Menachem Markovich
Diary
New Media Art First Year Students T
Guided Tours
Holes Opened in The Rhythm of Times
Exhibition
King Solomon Puzzle
Musrara's Photography department Curators: Dafna Ichilov and Tali Romem
Labyrinth – Roger YchaÏ Benichou, 1941–2021
Multidisciplinary exhibition
Out of the Loop
A Night at Barbur Gallery
Spacetime
Projection Mapping course | New Media Art Students
The Department of Photography
Head of the Department and projects curator: Dafna Ichilov
The Whispering Object
Music Department Students Advisor: Niv Gafni
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
What’s Behind the Sky?
Sharon Kantor and Adaya Godlevsky
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Preformed by Modern Ensemble of Musrara New Music Department
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:00
Ground floor
Guided Tours
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
20:30
MusicPanther Hall
Nightworld
Zohar Shafir and Kim Teitelbaum
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicPanther Hall
The Calamity Dwellers
Musrara Choir
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:15
MusicPanther Hall
Flux Venus Elettrikais
Eryck Abecassis
22:40
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
17:00
MusicSalesian SIsters Pilgrims' Home
What’s Behind the Sky?
Sharon Kantor and Adaya Godlevsky
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
Overwhelmed
Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Ground floor
Guided Tours
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:15
MusicPanther Hall
Habibi Yessa'ed Awkatu [May My Love's Days Be Joyous]
Aviv Ezra and Johanna Riethmueller Musical Act
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicPanther Hall
Latency
Grisha Shakhnes Musical Act
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:20
MusicPanther Hall
Noam Enbar
Musical Act
22:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
23:00
Music
After Musrara Mix
Dark Mix at the Mazkeka with Ron Sheskin
18:45
MusicPanther Hall
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
19:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
Copy Farm
video installation
19:30
Ground floor
Guided Tours
19:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
19:30
MusicPanther Hall
When Women Were Birds
Ruth Wieder Magan and Or Mai
19:45
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
19:45
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
20:00
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
20:15
MusicPanther Hall
Maqam Music Ensemble
Students from the Department of New Music
20:30
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
21:00
MusicPanther Hall
Sharon Kantor, Adam Sheflan and Dudik Opp
Experimental Trio of drums and two guitars.
21:00
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
21:15
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
21:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Memoir of the Future
Dramaturgical curation: Ori Drumer
21:30
MusicRecording Studio
Tunnels
Adaya Godlevsky and Haggai Fershtman
22:00
Exhibitions, Performance & Installation4th floor
A Vision is Not a Dream
Alex Yonovich and Leila Rose Bari Video installation and performance
22:00
MusicPanther Hall
Internal Destruction
Shaul Dahan Musical Act
22:20
MusicPanther Hall
Yoni Silver
Musical Act
22:30
Exhibitions, Music, Performance & Installation4th floor
Water Appears
Video installation and performance Noga Shalit Glick and Naomi Weisselberg
00:00
Music
Out of the Loop
A Night at Barbur Gallery