PROPOSAL

CLARISSE HAHN (France):

1.French video artist. She'd like to propose a work she's
finishing now about sado-maso relationship. She filmed, during about 1 year,
a master and her servant.

2. video installation. Two works are presented in a parallel installation : the first one deals with the body of old people in hospitals, through the relationship between nurses and hospitalized persons, and the second one deals with the controlled body in the porn world, through the daily life of a young porn actress.    

ROTEM BALVA:

-Op-allah: video work

This video is a dialogue created by the juxtaposition of a fencing fight (images and sound of the fencers and the audience) and of the black screen with the song of the muezzin she recorded in her studio in Jerusalem, close to the Arabic part of the city.

-The Bower: performance in collaboration with Alexander Kollek-Green.

Balva uses the body of the performer as a living material she transforms into a sculpture. The performer is naked and bows in front of the audience. There are here different levels of control: the control of a person on another body, the transformation of the human body into a material and the movement itself of the performer.

 

ADINA BAR-ON:

-Disposition: performance

This performance took place in different cities, Kibbutz Nachshon (Israel), Hong-Kong, Helsinki, Quimper (France). In each city, Bar-On checks the symbolic and historic places and defines the way she will follow. She goes for a journey with a group of people through the determined itinerary. During this trip, she plays, sings, talks with the people. She also disappears and reappears, showing the control she exerts regarding the inscribing of the figure in the landscape. As a minimal urban signal, she works as a developer of forgotten / repressed situations on a public level as well as on a private level.

-Home of course: performance

This performance was presented for the first time in Poland, then in Tel Aviv. Bar-On reduces the acting of performance to the most minimalist ways. Very controlled movements, expressions of the face and a few words are the basis of the performance. It may be seen as a series of long frames creating a storytelling that each viewer may adjust to his own story. She deals with the issues connected to the concept of home: construction, destruction, otherness, welcoming, nationalism, war, ownership, frontiers, female aspects, maternity, sex, violence. 

 

AMIR BORENSTEIN & EFFIE WEISS:

All my sons: multimedia and video work

The work is a variation about the destiny of the possible children of a fictitious couple (played by the artists themselves). The children are created through multimedia way. They were realized through a computer project that mixed the faces of the two artists. This fragmented storytelling shows various aspects of the daily life in Israel: each child opens to a different way of life and to the conflicts connected to this potential narration.

 

NIRA PEREG:

Video works #1 and 2: Pereg deals with a kind of schizophrenia. The artist is divided into doubles avoiding each other, running, meeting and sitting together.

 

ZAMIR SHATZ:

Shenkin – Azza – Shenkin: video work

Shenkin is the most popular and fashionable street of Tel Aviv, with bars, restaurants and shops.  Azza is the Hebrew-Arabic real name of Gaza (the stripe and the city). The work of Shatz deals with the travel of the Arabic workers, coming to Tel Aviv for work. It shows also the parallel between daily situations in the two cities in all their differences as well as the impossibility of avoiding the economical - and therefore social – relations between the Palestinian and the Israeli worlds. 

 

Optional:

 

ILANA SALAMA-ORTAR:

-The memory of the body: this documentary by Salama-Ortar presents a young Israeli Arab man living in the North of Israel. He was terribly injured by a mine at the age of 14, when he was playing near to his home. He lost his right leg, his right arm and his right eye. He explains how he survived with half a body.

-(Under conditions): new documentary about the immigration in Israel (Asiatic and black populations in Israel, a “white State”).

 

 

I would like to propose also:

 

-NEBOJSA SERIC SOBA (Bosnia): video works and installation. After works about the war, Soba deals now with the exile, the “homeless” situation, the difficulty of coming back to Serbia and of being in another country with people that sometimes don’t understand.