On The Road

Dr. Daphna Ben-Shaul, Lea Mauas, Nava Frenkel, Ada Rimon, Hadas Ophrat and Amit Drori
Dr. Daphna Ben-Shaul, Lea Mauas, Nava Frenkel, Ada Rimon, Hadas Ophrat and Amit Drori

On The Road

A journey through five landmarks around Jerusalem, chosen by artists as places where significant relationships have been established, both with the place and within the place. We will gather at the school at 9:30 and make ourselves sandwiches to take with us on the tour. We will provide everything, including vegan options. The day will start with an introductory talk by Dr. Daphna Ben-Shaul. Afterwards we will continue on a walking tour. 

The tour is circular and about 6 km long. It will take approximately 5-6 hours, including stops for rest, food and water. Participants are advised to wear comfortable clothes, a hat, a backpack, water and comfortable walking shoes.

Dis-Course: Journey Performance and Alÿs’s The Green Line / Dr. Daphna Ben-Shaul 10:00-10:30

A prominent trend in site-specific performance art is performances in motion,

especially walking, which are sometimes referred to as “Itinerant Performance” or “Journey Performance”. In correspondence with the European precedents of

creative walking and contemporary walking culture, journey performance in the

2000s responds to a specific place; it walks and wanders in order to evoke a

discourse about Our Place. We will briefly explore draw a line in the field of

discourse itself and take a look at Francis Alÿs’s The Green Line (2004) performance in Jerusalem. What does this aesthetic-political action tell us, as it redraws an erased borderline?

 

A Defining Place / Walking tour and talk with Lea Mauas, Nava Frenkel, Ada Rimon, Hadas Ophrat and Amit Drori 10:30-17:30

A walking tour in Jerusalem, starting from the School of Visual Theater, passing through five landmarks chosen by artists as places where significant relationships have been established, both with the place and within the place, and returning to the school.

 

We will pass through Sergei’s Courtyard, listening to Lea Mauas and her relationships with the courtyard and its surroundings. We will continue to the top of Mount Zion, where we will examine with Nava Frenkel the relationship between the strength of the wind and the body’s mass. We will walk down and up again to Bible Hill, where we will observe the water divide with Ada Rimon, and understand through our bodies something about the land and what lies beneath it. We will rest in the Bloomfield Gardens and have a picnic together, then continue to Boustan Abraham where we will watch Hadas Ophrat and the body’s place in space. We will finish the tour with Amit Drori, in an ancient-new gathering in Jason’s Tomb in Rehavia. 

 

In this journey of Our Place, we will gather concrete, tangible, and realistic data. We will ask how the body positions itself and moves with the absorption and response to these elements, where and how the data of the place captures the vitality and materiality of our own bodies.

 

9:30-17:30 / Free entry with pre-registration

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