Nava Frenkel is a performance artist and writer for stage. Ever since she finished her studies at the School of Visual Theater in 2008, she is considered one of the central figures in the contemporary theater field in Israel. Her works combine complex word games, joyful choreographic constructions, and aesthetic tools that shimmy elegantly between the sacred and the mundane. Her works are exhibited in Israel, as well as Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, France, England, and the Netherlands. She is a BA in psychology and philosophy. Aside from her occupation as an artist, Frenkel teaches at the School of Visual Theater, the Jerusalem Music and Dance Academy, and various theater and choreography programs.
“The work takes place outside, in a clearing. How did we get there? Because we deviated from the main road: deviated and arrived. And perhaps we stayed, stayed in the battlefield even after the battle was over. Haim Gouri wrote: “here lie our bodies, one night after the battle”. Participating in the performance are two people and two cars. The car and the forest are a contrast to each other, they do not assimilate with one another: the car will remain a stranger to the forest, it will forever remain separate. And the forest – will remain a forest even when the car leaves it. I wished to let the automobile be an organism within the forest.
I wanted to speak in shouts, speak very loudly without it being a thing of anger, and in a forest, there is a distance justifying it. When one calls out in the forest: “Father, where are you?” there is a possibility that they are actually hiding somewhere, any perhaps will soon be revealed.
My calling, what does it call for? Perhaps to contemplate once again as to what remains in our power and what does not. A calling to adapt to what is not in one’s power. I wanted to observe my powers, and not only my own powers, but in a humane perspective – to rephrase what are ‘powers’”.
By: Nava Frenkel / With and by: Nava Frenkel and Noam Rimon
The project was created thanks to the support of Mifal HaPais
Photo: Maya Levi