Wandering

Four short lectures by speakers from different disciplines, touching on diverse and intertwining aspects of wandering. An attempt to examine this theme in mental, cultural, sociological, and artistic contexts.  Featuring: Dina von Schwarze-Mastai, Yakie Ayalon, Nitsan Baider, Miriam Eve Banai Director: Vered Rahat “Wherever I may go, I go to nowhere land” / Dina von […]

Elevator 

In the video “The Elevator,” Esther Biberfeld and Lilach Moskovitz examine the space of the elevator as the scene of events. In a compilation of shots capturing various elevators around Jerusalem, they delineate the choreography of this mechanical transporting device with a sense of wonder and fascination.

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 […]

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 […]

Assembly Point

As part of its ongoing examination of the concepts of freedom and liberty, the Freedom Research Institute offers visitors an opportunity to travel while staying in one place. The Community Center’s conference room is converted into a lounge, a peripatetic therapeutic playground of sorts. Behind a theatrical red curtain, the itinerant viewer meets “Assembly Point” […]

Trrrraaaaaaaaannnsssssssssspooooooooooooorrrrt II

At a fair booth, which doubles as a mobile studio, the artist Noa Kurnick sculpts tiny clay figurines, one after the other. The subject of these sculptures is movement: the movement of the body and of the material. As time goes by, the figurines start to amass in large quantities. These are in fact touristic […]