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 […]
Visions
As part of the Musrara Mix Festival program, the day after the festival’s opening performance (Poems by Alpha), an artist talk with Adi Gelbart will be held at HaMazkeka, where Gelbart will talk about his creative processes and screen his short film VISIONS for Orchestra, Electronics, and Bunny Theater. The event is open to the […]
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.
Windows
“Windows” explores processes of change and fixation. Life exposes us to various stimuli; some disappear, others gain a fleeting expression, and some linger and endure. By projecting a moving image onto analog photographic paper, the work examines the ways in which fleeting images gain a fixed form.
The Myth of the Inukshuk (from the Inuktitut: ᐃᓄᒃᓱᒃ)
2nd-year students in the Department of Interdisciplinary Art present projection mappings works they developed and tailored specifically for the Inukshuk sculpture near the Canada House. The works will present the students’ different takes on the concept of wandering, incorporating interactive elements, sound, animation, video, and performance. The works were developed as part of the “Advanced […]
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 […]
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 […]