The Living Gallery’s season draws to a close with a series of events and actions curated by Kinneret Haya Max (October 10–23). 

The series was born out of the idea of the gallery as a space for learning – a place where knowledge emerges from the artistic action itself, and continues to circulate. Three artists were invited to respond to one simple yet impossible question: What lesson are you, right now?

Each of them proposes a different way to go deeper – into the body, the consciousness, the cosmos – inviting the audience to be not only spectators but also active participants in an open-ended experiment.

Lior Tamim approaches the question with the understanding that every action he takes already carries within it the distilled DNA of the lesson that he is. In a continuous 12-hour action, Lior Tamim and a live donkey will stand in the gallery space – alone, without a planned script – while the audience is invited to watch from outside or stay inside. A wordless, transparent, ongoing action, allowing no correction or closure. Date and time to be announced.

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Kinneret, the curator of the series, writes: “Yuval Rimon, who was a teacher and director at the School of Visual Theater, used to say: “We do the same work all our lives.” By “we” he meant artists; by “the same work,” he meant, as I understood it, the axis around which we revolve – the same pain we transmute into beauty, the same simplicity we recognize everywhere which, as familiar as it is, remains primordial. In other worlds, some might call it the soul’s lesson. Now, two decades later, within the walls of the Living Gallery – the School’s educational gallery, whose very essence is to question the relationship between artistic practice and pedagogy – I invited three artists to address the question: What is the lesson that you are now?”

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