Set 1: Thursday 21.10.21 | 19:00 – 20:30 / Participants: Avraham Harush and Flora Deborah, Dina Blich, Idit Kischinovsky, Shelly Shavit
Set 2: Thursday 21.10.21 | 20:30 – 22:00 / Participants: Avraham Harush and Flora Deborah, Noga Rozman and Shahar Markus, Rahel Menashe Dor, Idit Kischinovsky, Shelly Shavit
Set 3: Friday 22.10.21 | 10:00 – 11:30 / Participants: Riki Manor, Efrat Veinsover Avni and Gat Godovich, Sharon Florsheim, Tal Yizrael and Nitzan Lederman, Simone Solomon and Merav Ofri Vax, Shelly Shavit- Full
Set 4: Friday 22.10.21 | 11:30 – 14:00 / Participants: Riki Manor, Khnum Group, Sharona Florsheim, Tal Yizrael and Nitzan Lederman, Rahel Menashe Dor, Simone Solomon and Merav Ofri Vax, Shelly Shavit- Full
Set 5: Saturday 23.10.21 | 11:00 – 12:30 / Participants: Liav Mizrahi, Doron Naama Gelfer, Eilon Armon, Roy Maayan and Erez Maayan, Simone Solomon and Merav Ofri Vax, Shelly Shavit- Full
Set 6: Saturday 23.10.21 | 12:30 – 15:00 / Participants: Liav Mizrahi, Eilon Armon, Roy Maayan and Erez Maayan, Doron Naama Gelfer, Merav Tzur and Esti Contas, Simone Solomon and Merav Ofri Vax, Shelly Shavit- Full
*The entrance to Benyamini center is according to Green Pass regulations / Free entry, Advanced registration required
*The ‘remains’ of the performances will be on view in the gallery until 30.10.21
*There might be changes in the program
Dinner – Avraham Harush, Flora Deborah
Thursday 21.10.21 | 19:00 – 21:00 | Courtyard
Dinner is a kind of ritual that occurs several times a day with a predicted script – the food that is served, the manner it is served, table manners etc. What happens when one of the ingredients in the script is changed? Harush invites the visitors to take an active part in a dinner that is mixed up.
One day you are a mountain and one day a leaf in the wind – Dina Blich
Thursday 21.10.21 | 20:00 | Lower gallery
Apparently functional clay pots, gallery and chance observers are the raw materials for the artist who creates a live sculpture – a temporary sculpture that changes through the performance. Under the guidance of the artist, there is interaction between the observers who become actors and the objects, and each time the interaction between them is re-examined including the stability of the live sculpture with the changing dynamic between the participants.
Babushka – Time, Turns and Change of form – Idit Kischinovsky
Thursday 21.10.21 | 19:30, 21:30 | Upper gallery
Babushka – the image of an older woman undressing one form and discovering another one during the performance, looking inward and connecting to the clay. How many forms do we hold? How many faces can we wear? How many beliefs and changing views?
The Feast – Noga Rozman and Shahar Markus
Thursday 21.10.21 | 20:30 | Upper Gallery
The huge and sisyphean effort invested in the creative process reaches its peak in the performance where the artists invert the accepted work process of wheel throwing. The human body rotates around the clay and the clay which is not the usual soft material but a pile of porcelain pots, remains static. In the performance the artist invests all his energy to allow the other artist make tiny and insignificant changes in the new object that appears to be instable. The tension between the huge effort and the small effortless action and the outcome raise various questions.
Upside down – Rachel Menashe Dor
Thursday 21.10.21 | 21:00 and Friday 22.10.21 | 13:30 – Lower gallery
Simple movements require extreme skill and the correct use of body weight especially when creating with clay while working hanging from the ceiling. Unanchored to the ground, the artist tries to create a structure from clay at the entrance to the gallery and to appropriate a place for herself while stretching the limits of the clay, her body, and her mental ability in opposition to the clay and the making process.
The earth is swarming and bubbling – Riki Manor
Friday 22.10.21 | 10:00, 12:30 | Courtyard
In artificial earth and stones created by the artist is the mouth of a crater that bubbles and threatens the environment around. How stable is the land we walk on? Can we take it for granted? A performance about building and destruction and the part played by man.
Clay Play – Choreography: Efrat Vansover Avni, Dancers: Efrat Vansover Avni and Gat Godovich
Friday 22.10.21 | 10:30 | lower gallery
A mound of 250 kg of clay becomes the playground for the dancers in the performance combining elements of physical theater, sculpture, and puppet theater. The borders between body and clay are blurred and examined in unusual and surprising movements. *The performance is supported by the Austriran Cultural Forum in Tel Aviv
Pain, love and freedom of choice – Revital Barlev ! Cancelled for medical reasons
Friday 22.10.21 | 10:30, 13:00 | upper gallery
An adult inauguration ceremony examines intimate bodily relations between human material and clay material. During the performance,the artist shares with the audience a personal life passage with collective characteristics concerning social expectations, the place of creativity in life, the role of passion and human contact, relations of love, pain and more. *the performance is age restricted to 18 years old due to sexual content.
Fragile Formation – Choreography: Sharona Florsheim, Performance artist: Tal Yizrael, Creative dancer: Nitzan Lederman
Friday 22.10.21 | 11:00 | upper gallery
An ongoing performance with a simultaneous experiment that examines the phenomenon of spontaneous self-assembly. In a petri dish enlarged to accommodate a human body, a dancer moves between hundreds of glass balls. The mechanical mixing movement in a laboratory is replaced by the human movement of the dancer that creates a dynamic movement of the glass balls. The relationship between the human body and the objects in the confined space, create a temporary sculptural composition which is constructed and destructs, leaving traces of the action and providing a memory and document of the transient movement. *The performance is part of the continuous interdisciplinary cooperation between researchers of the Nano Institute of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and the choreographer and artist.
Rise to the ground – Khnum Group – Noa Almagor Ben Dor, Hila Drori, Ronen Yamin, Amnon Amos
Friday 22.10.21 | 12:00 | Lower gallery
In a festive procession, pushing a wheelbarrow, carrying a suitcase and a string of dreams, the members of the Khnum group enter the gallery and look for a place to create their home. With objects, a wheel and clay they try to turn the environment into a stable and balanced place that facilitates authentic creativity. During the performance they examine the relationship between themselves and the new location and raise questions about their place of origin and where they are heading. Will they succeed and what will happen if not?
“Bigfoot, Big Mouth” – Liav Mizrahi
Saturday 23.10.21 | 11:00 | Lower gallery
On a mound of clay sits a man with big feet next to a pile of papers and using his mouth in a repetitive and ongoing motion, he makes serrated paper cones covering the bare clay. These are two areas of the human body, two extremes – the head with the mouth and the soles of the feet. The one is imaginary, mysterious and enigmatic and the other physical, repetitive, and materialistic. In the performance the artist is interested in combining the two images and movements – between fantasy and imaginary and the real but illogical movement as well as the imaginary body and the real clay.
Embrace – Longing – Doron Naama Gelfer
Saturday 23.10.21 | 11:00 and 13:30 | Upper gallery
How far are we prepared to go to meet a loved one and touch in times when we are ordered to be isolated? The performance is a journey of Sisyphean effort made by the artist who seeks to touch and tries to preserve in the clay the feelings they raise.
Knife – Roy Maayan and Erez Maayan
Saturday 23.10.21 |11:30 | Lower gallery
On a large stage of unfired clay, two brothers play the child’s game of “Knife” and in the process stab the knife in each other’s territory, appropriating areas, conquering, and being conquered. The brothers become rivals; the borders are blurred and redefined, prohibitions and limitations until one submits. Along with the child-like game we are witness to brotherly struggles and family tensions that are personal and collective.
Memory – Eilon Armon
Saturday 23.10.21 | 11:30 | courtyard
There is nothing more stable than the knowledge we will die in the end, and it is indisputable that the end is drawing closer. More than 7 years have passed since the death of the designer’s mother, a florist in her life. The presence of her memory in his life and the ongoing contemplation of his relationship with her lead him over the past years to create memorial wreaths. The performance will be another chapter in this series during which he will arrange the everlasting ceramic flowers as he attempts to preserve her memory.
Cover me – Merav Tzur and Esti Contas, Narrator: Eitan Ratz
Saturday 23.10.21 | 14:00 | Upper gallery
With the participation of the audience the artists create a pre-sleep ceremony accompanied by a lullaby using a clay blanket instead of the familiar material blanket. The heavy clay covers the body and the accompaniment of the lullaby creates a feeling of stability, protection and security for the covered person. However, the act of covering while lying on the ‘earth’ and the lullaby tell the story of a fear of death within the context of burial. The blanket moves between participants and each time the use tears the edges and requires fixing to stabilize the purpose. The tension lies between the laying down and the layer, between the stable and disturbed.
Ongoing performances
Landslide – Simone Solomon and Merav Ofri Vax
Friday 22.10.21 | 10:00 – 11:00, 12:00 – 14:00 | upper gallery
Saturday 23.10.21 | 11:00 – 13:30 | Upper gallery
A house placed firmly on land in the village of Alta in North Norway, surfs and floats, until it sinks and disappears in the cold waters of the ocean. The artists invite the visitors to go to the disaster area, to step towards the screened landslide and to take an active role in the infinite circle between destruction –construction – destruction.
Deep Time – Shelly Shavit
Thursday to Saturday | lobby
An engineered landscape dissolves through a grid to a new physical state. Various states of materials, interaction between water and clays in an infinite cycle of recycling.
