Bliss

In 2001, Microsoft launched its new operating system, Windows XP. The default wallpaper of the operating system became one of the quintessential images of the 2010s. The idyllic green hills and blue sky of California’s Sonoma Valley, where photographer Charles O’Rear took the original photo, lure users to step into the digital realm, enter a […]

Gait.Way

Performance within the framework of the exhibition at Musrara Art Gallery, “As the Road Reveals Itself, the Spirit Awaits” (curater: Tali Romem). Sometimes the path is steep and treacherous, other times it is flat and straightforward. Sometimes we walk alone and other times we travel with companions. Each journey has its own character and requires […]

Sunflower Seeds

Nahmias’s audio visual show is a multi-participant collision between the performer and loudspeaker membranes, cello, theremin, and sunflower seeds. In a series of remote actions of tossing sunflower seeds at the membranes, and gesturing in front of the theremin antenna, Nahmias creates an ensemble that oscillates between different meters and between alertness and relaxation, placing […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]