Waterpuller’s Light: from the tip

Artist and musician David Israel Katz, based in the US, brings to Musrara a selection of excerpts from Waterpuller’s Light, a series of Torah readings featuring singers, composers, visual artists, sound artists and poets from the US, Israel, Europe and Latin America, originally presented in a digital space. In a special adaptation for the computer room at Musrara School, videos created in response to the weekly Torah portion will be screened. This edition focuses on Parashat Miketz.

foreignfire works at the intersection of art and Jewish ritual, bringing biblical narratives and prayers to life through multidisciplinary works that combine text, voice, movement, video and installation.
David Katz is a composer and improviser working with voice, movement, text and image. He holds an MA in Composition and an MA in Improvisation from Mills College (Oakland, California). In rock and pop, he is known as the lead singer of the band ‘The Zoharim’ and the creator of ‘Tic Vitaal’. In contemporary music, he is known as a versatile vocalist and a daring, transgressive improviser. His discography includes recordings with composers Brett Carson and Lisa Mezzacappa (Oakland, California), as well as with the satanic boy band MAKOT (Berlin/Tel Aviv). He has performed at the Tectonics Festival (Tel Aviv), Musrara Mix (Jerusalem), and at Xavier Veilhan’s Studio Venezia (Venice Biennale). He has also lectured at Musrara School in Jerusalem and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.