Dancer and a Bear

Lee Orpaz’s video (2008) places two figures in a set up that looks like the last moments of a high school dance. The party is over, there is no one around except for the bear and the dancer. A keyboard rendition of The Man I Love is playing in the background. The two performative figures […]

The Converter

Yaron Attar’s video work unfolds a conversation between a Christian worshipper and the artist, recorded with a hidden camera. The entire conversation is conducted as a whispered confession, during which the Christian explains the importance of confession and absolution. The conversation between the two is tentative and blends with the sounds of prayer hymns, while […]

THE PASSING OF TIME

Nostalgic desertscapes throb and disappear, and a new desert horizon emerges in their place, different yet similar. Tamar Hirschfeld’s video work is a “Fata Morgana”: a mirage conjured by the journey’s hallucinations.  Time and again, the screen burns as the fire gradually leads the viewer from the two-dimensionality of the journal paper to the boundless […]

Dead Horsman

An operatic piece starring a headless horseman and a horse. Musician and artist Zohar Shafir animates the two characters, engaged in an imaginary dialogue between life and death. Although the characters are treated as one entity, the show takes place simultaneously in two separate locations. One space is chaotic and theatrical, packed with sculptural objects […]

Wandering Ghosts

Every person has a name. Every name is a number. Every number is a frequency. Every frequency is a sound. The purest sound in the entire universe is a sine wave. Sine waves at different frequencies form different harmonies at any given moment, creating a different resonance, a vibration. Daniel Meir’s “Wandering Ghosts” comprises 16 […]

Beating Lung

“Beating Lung” is a sound installation that comes alive with a live show twice a night, in which Itzhaki plays a saxophone solo in the installation he created. Playing in the middle of a circle composed of objects, musical instruments, and sound boxes, the music permeates and activates the space. The still objects that encircle […]

Variations for Swing Assembly in 3rd Configuration 

A pendulum sways in the middle of the room. An entity that traverses the space. The floor below it is covered by speaker cable that form an archipelago – a tangle of reception islands. The work explores the relationships between mechanical movement, sound production, and the electromagnetic fields that are all around us. Like the […]

Writing the Text for the Curator

Combining video with performance, Shay-Lee Uziel presents a comic take on the encounter between the artist’s creative processes and the financial mechanisms of the art world. Between success and failure. Between an exhibition that is currently on view and the moment it is repacked and goes back into the studio. The work shifts between the coordinates […]

Take It from Here 

Maya Sharabani helps visitors shed the burden of identifying objects – their smartphone, house keys, wallet. Objects that over the years have attached themselves in our bodies, almost like a natural evolutionary process. “Take It from Here” is an invitation to participate in the exhibition and experience it as nameless nomad. Sharabani transforms the cafeteria […]

Guidance

The characters created by puppeteer Moti Brecher emerge from his torso, loins and stomach. They protrude out of his body like a prosthetic limb or a wisecracking growth eager to pontificate. In his performance-lecture, Brecher marries together pedagogical techniques and experimental, edgy stand-up, as he leads groups through the festival into the warren of the […]