Freeze, Fight, Flight or Fawn
Freeze, Fight, Flight or Fawn
A site specific installation, relying on the natural crevices of the SVT’s entire first floor: its passages, drains and hard membrane (walls).
Shifting the focus from the container and the contained, we are left looking at the layer that separates them. This layer is not exactly 2-dimensional, and what is its nature?
In 2003, Pete Walker proposed the addition of a new F to “Freeze Fight or Flight”: to Fawn. Meaning: to shape others through appeal and attraction.
(The insistence to find another term that starts with F is a fawn response in itself, to those who are inexcusably helpless in understanding anything).
But the Fawn, there his power lies: in the thin outer layer of soft fur and glistening eyes. A successful example is the fawning over the West that Japan engaged in after WW2. As long as our helplessness in understanding won’t be cured – we are forced to stare at what is actually there.
Credits
Participants Shani Kagan, Sophia Gladkaya, Itamar Levi, Eran Ivgy
Lighting design Eden Dolev, Shira Sofer
Production Avigayil Rose, Nitzan Shafran, Lotem Gilboa, Daniela Lila Sheltzer
