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.

Ohad Fishof will lead a three-day workshop that combines both practice and research, -research titled “What Can Be Done.” In the workshop, Fishof will share some of the practices he has developed over his years of artistic creation – physical and mental exercises that serve as preparation for performance, for creation, and for life. Participants are invited to explore a curious toolbox, at times noble, at times absurd – for the body, voice, consciousness, and spirit.

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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?”

The Living Gallery • 11 Bezalel St. (Gerard Behar Plaza) • Jerusalem