Whose Voice is This Anyway? / Ronen Eidelman - Yonatan Amir
Whose Voice is This Anyway?, a new supplement in Ma’arav, deals with questions such as who ‘owns’ the voice of the other, if anyone can ‘own’ a voice anyway, and what is the character of the moral right to employ it, as well as with the cultural repercussions of these question on contemporary culture and art. Showcasing and debating artworks, curatorial work, film and activism, the supplement evaluates the different questions that arise from creation by and research of the other.
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Mamuta Call for Applications for Artist’s Workspace - admin
Visual artists, sound artists, designers, architects, curators, and researchers in the arts, are invited to submit applications for a workspace at Mamuta. Next deadline: 30.11.09
Evil to the Core - Galit Eilat and Ran Kasmy Ilan
The year 1961 marked the entry of the voice of the repressed Israeli “other” into the heart of the local discourse upon the opening of the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem. In the very same year,Stanley Milgram conducted his famous experiment in social psychology, “Obedience to Authority”. That indicated that 65% of the participants agreed to administer seemingly real electric shocks of increasing intensityto other men only because a figure of authority had instructed them to do so…The exhibition “Evil to the Core” addresses issues pertaining to docility and obedience to authority, conformism, social responsibility, disobedience, and non-conformism in general, and in Israeli society specifically.
What’s hidden behind the Pastoral? - admin
An art project in which more than thirty artists present installations, performances, tours, and shows dealing with the past, present, and future of Ein Karem. The project explores the history of the village from biblical times, through its epoch as a Palestinian village, and until its present day as a Jewish neighborhood of West Jerusalem and a primary object of desire for big real-state projects. This series of actions examines the place of the pastoral in Israeli art in general and its implications on Ein Karem specifically. The event is also the formal opening to the public of the Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center.
02 – A short movie about Jerusalem by Uri Crystal - Ronen Eidelman
02 – A short movie about Jerusalem by Uri Crystal from uganda on Vimeo.
Dror Feiler, leading Jewish inspiration - admin
Can one create art while anticipating reactions to it? Not without losing art itself says provocative artist/musician Dror Feiler. His and Gunilla Sköld Feiler’s installation, Snow White and The Madness of Truth, caused more than a few upturned eyebrows around the world. Dror gives us the story behind the art and shares with us his [...]
- Daniel: Sorry, but i’ll agree with the yawn – The humus places in TA have very little to do with...
- Nicole Cohen: I was Buky Schwartz’s artist assistant for a short period in the early 1990’s. He and I...
- Judith Cooper-Weill: Intelligently provocative: Shira Richter succeeds in stimulating a response in even the most...
- Candy Shinaar: I’ll probably get flamed for saying this, but it is my theory that many women give up the good fight...
- zelda harris: Shira’s profound statement is not just about art but also courage.Women have become resigned to...
Who's Voice Is This Anyway?
Whose Cinema?
Using the work of French film maker and anthropologist Jean Rouch, Israeli film makers such as Avi Mograbi and July Gerstel Cohen and the writings of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, Adam Aboulafia tries (Whose Cinema?) to work out whether documentary film can represent an otherness which overcomes the allegedly distinct identities of filmmaker, subject and viewer – and if so, what the nature of that otherness might be.
The Politics of Aesthetics Between Bil’in and Tel Aviv
“Through the sculptures, the demonstrators define themselves as performers, join a contemporary international activist-art world, and demand that their political claims be heard from another angle. They disrupt the organizational principle of society and make themselves visible as social partners, through their appropriation of the tools of the bourgeois”.
Curatorial Responsibility and the Exhibition of Israeli and Palestinian Political Art in Europe
Curators and organizers of exhibitions of Palestinian and Israeli political art in Europe will likely encounter two opposing positions concerning their responsibilities…
A Participant Observer: Dealing with Political Voice in William Kentbridge’s “Drawings for Projection”
William Kentridge’s works are overtly political; his entire oeuvre revolves around South Africa’s troubled history and torn identity. But as an affluent, educated, white male, can he really give a voice to the oppressed? The question has to do less with legitimacy (i.e. does he have a right to do so) and more with the [...]
SLOT MOBILITY!
A group of artists fakes up an economic sphere association, which deals with PR and politics, but is using fine arts sponsoring to reach strategic goals. The art project SCHLEUSER.NET and the question who has the right to speak in the name of another.
Highlights
Interviews
Not Only Are We the Bad Guys, We’re also Poor On the eve of the 53rd Venice Art Biennale’s opening, Ronen Eidelman interviews Dorit Levité, curator of the Israeli pavilion, trying to understand why the Raffi Lavie show was chosen, why she is doing it and how all of that ties in with Israeli art’s place in the Middle East.
what's going on
Evil to the Core The year 1961 marked the entry of the voice of the repressed Israeli “other” into the heart of the local discourse upon the opening of the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem. In the very same year,Stanley Milgram conducted his famous experiment in social psychology, “Obedience to Authority”. That indicated that 65% of the participants agreed to administer seemingly real electric shocks of increasing intensityto other men only because a figure of authority had instructed them to do so…The exhibition “Evil to the Core” addresses issues pertaining to docility and obedience to authority, conformism, social responsibility, disobedience, and non-conformism in general, and in Israeli society specifically.
Open Calls
Mamuta Call for Applications for Artist’s Workspace Visual artists, sound artists, designers, architects, curators, and researchers in the arts, are invited to submit applications for a workspace at Mamuta. Next deadline: 30.11.09
Theory
The Erotics of the Occupation The perverse relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is a depressing B movie that the entire world daily watches. Many actors, spectators, and producers take part in the Mis-en-Scene: soldiers, civilians, international observes, humanitarian organizations, to name few. Despite the attraction to the action, not many realize that the Israeli occupation is all about the body: sweat, heavy breathing, desire.
Struggles
Conceptual Framework of Direnal-Istanbul Resistance Days: What Keeps Us Not-Alive? An open letter to the curators, artists, participants of the 11th International Istanbul Biennial and to all artists and art-lovers
We have to stop pretending that the popularity of politically engaged art within the museums, and markets over the last few years has anything to do with really changing the world. We have to [...]
Reviews
In the Middle of What Exactly? A Review of Catherine David’s first exhibition in the Middle East: “In the Middle of the Middle”
Ma'arav Vintage
On the Beauty and Horror of Socialist Realism Vulgar propaganda, politically engaged kitsch or “the truth of life as expressed in artistic images?” Roman Vater has a few good things to say about a much-defamed genre, which centers upon the conflict between the good and the better.
