Breath of Life
Intensive workshop for 3rd and 4th year students
Two weeks in semester B
Alona Rodeh
Born in Nahariya in 1979, Alona Rodeh is an artist and stage designer. Her body of work spans across sculpture, light and sound installations, short film production, book publishing, and more. In recent years, research has played a central role in her projects, focusing on the built environment. As an integral part of her practice, Rodeh frequently collaborates with creators in adjacent fields, including music, theater, dance, and public institutions, as a set and costume designer.
Rodeh has exhibited in museums, public spaces, galleries, and art fairs in Israel and internationally.
In Israel, her work has been displayed at venues such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Tel Aviv, the Petach Tikva Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Rosenfeld Gallery, and others. Public installations have been exhibited at the Digital Art Center in Holon and the Museum Island in Berlin, among other locations.
Internationally, her works have been shown at the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, La Casa Encendida in Madrid, the Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg, the Christine König Gallery in Vienna, Kunstpalais Erlangen, the Marta Herford Museum, and the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Performances have been featured at Transmediale in Berlin, the National Gallery Zachęta in Warsaw, and the Swiss Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale, among others.
A graduate of both bachelor's and master's degree programs in art, Rodeh completed her studies at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. For the past decade, she has been based in Berlin.
This workshop invites students to explore Performance without Performers, a form of work where time, movement, light, and sound take center stage at the expense of the human body. Inspired by the concept of Object-Oriented Ontology*, participants will experiment with creating performative environments devoid of human stage presence over a timeline, using technology, spatial design, and objects as their primary tools. Concurrently, the workshop will examine automated performances in our surroundings, addressing their environmental, social, and political dimensions.
*Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) is a 21st-century philosophical school influenced by Heidegger. It rejectsObject-Oriented Ontology (OOO), in metaphysics, is a 21st-century philosophical school influenced by Heidegger, rejecting the supremacy of human existence over that of non-human entities.
