ZEZEZEZEZEZEZE
On each evening of the festival, drum-based musical performances will take place in the exhibition space of Resting from Within by Rotem Trifman, on view at the Printmaking Workshop. On the final evening, a performance by the drum-and-bass duo Zezezezezezeze, David Oppenheim (3H and Barbara) and Shaul Kohen (Andarta), who have been “playing like two monkeys” together for several years. They released their first album on Raash Records (2025), their second independently, and their third isn’t ready yet.
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Duration 30 minutes
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A short walk from Musrara School, up Shivtei Israel Street, stands a distinctive, long-established Jerusalem institution: the Jerusalem Print Workshop. As part of the festival, it will host Rotem Trifman’s first solo exhibition; Trifman is a graduate of the school’s Department of Arts.
The exhibition is a collaboration between the festival, the school, and the workshop’s residency program. Over three months, Rotem worked at the workshop, learned the intricacies of printmaking and experimented with traditional woodcut practices. The exhibition “Resting from within,” curated by Tali Ben-Nun, brings together works from Rotem’s own studio and the new prints he created at the workshop.
The fibrous wooden surface became a psychedelic diary, winding between dreams, art and fragments of reality. The works brim with improvisation and a fascination with the everyday and the trivial, with situations that have no punchline, corny jokes, and the incidental proximity of random events. The result appears unraveled, gripped by doubt and deliberately unfinished.
Rotem Trifman is a multidisciplinary artist and a graduate of Musrara School’s Department of Arts. A sculptor, painter, and musician living and working in Tel Aviv, he explores personal experiences through symbols and self-deprecating humor.
Tali Ben-Nun is an independent curator, lecturer, and writer specializing in contemporary art. Her curatorial practice is rooted in working processes that combine in-depth research with ongoing dialogue with artists.
Curator Tali Ben-Nun
Printmaster Wanja Schub
Jerusalem Print Workshop Director Dr. Tamar Gispan-Greenberg
More events within Resting from Within
On each evening of the festival, drum-based musical performances will take place in the exhibition space of “Resting from Within” by Rotem Trifman, on view at the Printmaking Workshop. On the first evening, the duo KOYOTA and Rotem Trifman will each perform a solo set.
All Air, Full Gas / Rotem Trifman
Personal rhythms break apart, tested on their own. The first rhythm thinks of the second. In a small room, you try; there is no mirror. You worry, wait, and beat your knees. Once again, you encounter the fact that the words “I love you” do not appear in this song.
Ducolored / KOYOTA
A performance featuring material from the forthcoming album by guitar-and-drums duo KOYOTA (Nov Lev and Liam Katzenstein). A heavy, shadowy atmosphere, hypnotic riffs, and complex rhythms come together to create a dense and original post-punk sound.
On each evening of the festival, drum-based musical performances will take place in the exhibition space of Resting from Within by Rotem Trifman, on view at the Printmaking Workshop. On the second evening, UIUIUI will perform a jazz-grind duo that blends internet humor and memes with experimental electronics, improvisation, balloon popping, and screams, creating extreme, high-energy musical pieces. The duo consists of Itai Reiten (saxophone, EWI, voice, balloons) and Uri Zornitzer (drums, keyboards, computer, voice, balloons). Together, the two unleash bursts of energy on the eardrums, punctuated by brief interludes of upbeat background music for regrouping and dancing.
Saxophone, EWI, Vocals, Balloons Itay Raiten
Drums, Keyboard, Sampling, Vocals, Balloons Ori Zornitzer
