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replica exhibition

2010-10-19T13:09:00.003+02:00

exhibition in our space in Jerusalem!

2010-05-10T12:08:00.002+03:00

Here is the invitation!!

chairs chairs chairs

2010-05-10T12:06:00.000+03:00

i love this 100 chairs exhibition!

recommendations

2010-03-09T11:56:00.002+02:00

1. enjoying reading The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.

2. my photographs are exhibited in Cafe Pollock in Tel Aviv until the end of March.

have a good week!

art event in Jerusalem tomorrow

2009-10-14T19:37:00.003+02:00

looks promising:
What’s Hidden Behind the Pastoral?

Contemporary Art Event and Opening of the Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center. 15-17 October, Ein Karem, Jerusalem

Participants: Yoaw Weiss, Wanja Schaub, Hadas Ophrat, Tamar Shippony, Einat Amir, Guy Itzhaki, Tamar Schori, Hannan Abu Hussein, Victoria Hanna, Lenny Ben-Bassat, Eldad Cideaur, Yonatan Ullman, Liraz Pank, Thalia Hoffman, Elad Schechter, Lezli Rubin-Kunda, Guy Briller, Leora Wise, Iris Pshedezki, Shiri Lanton, Hanna Ben-Hayim Yulzary, Yifat Laist, Zehavit Stern, “maayan magazine”, Hachalalit – Hayarkon 70, Mamuta Kollectiv

curators: sala-manca group

Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz presents Sanja Ivekovic and Pole, Jew, Artist. Identity and Avant-garde‏

2009-10-14T19:28:00.002+02:00

this seems like a good stop in Poland, wish i could go:

Pole, Jew, Artist. Identity and Avant-garde

exhibition: 17/10/09 – 31/01/10 conference: 15-17/10/09

exhibiton season in jerusalem

2009-09-05T18:54:00.003+03:00

There is a lot going on and tonight - it is the opening of these events. Manofim (sorry the website is only for the hebrew readers) initiative is a collaboration between many art spaces in Jerusalem that will go on for the next couple of weeks and will expose "the rich and unique cultural and artistic activity that goes on in the city in it's diversity".
enjoy!!

La Reseña 2009

2009-07-30T17:07:00.005+03:00

I have been selected to be part of the exhibition which opens on August 6 in Casa de la Cultura, Monterrey, México.

i am slow slow slow

2009-07-19T01:43:00.005+03:00

i don't know why i didn't post here the one night exhibition that i was part of a Puerta Cerrada last month. just swamped with other things on my mind i guess. photos from that night can be found on my website. here is a sample from my work which was an installation called Dejame que te hable también con tu silencio (a line quoted from a Pablo Neruda poem).

reading

2009-07-15T17:24:00.002+03:00

this wonderful book. it makes me dizzy almost when i read it, its like being inside a

maelstrom. The book is אישה בורחת מבשורה which would be translated literally - a Woman Running Away from News, written by David Grossman, i think the translation to English would be: Till the End of the Land (couldn't find the book in Amazon to put a link - probably the book hasn't been translated yet).

another tom waits

2009-05-27T05:29:00.000+03:00

i thought i put this here already, i guess i didn't.
love it.

norway

2009-05-27T05:16:00.002+03:00

finally sent my things to norway!! so proud of me, even if i am the only one knowing this, it has been so hard lately and i am managing slowly slowly.
also, i am working on the piece for the exhibition in munich (which will open in november). exciting things are happening.
and since not much celebration is going on here lately, i will get a nice chocolate chip cookie to eat and listen to this:

new day

2009-05-23T16:44:00.001+03:00

click to watch something something cheerful.

today i am going to start working on a new site specific installation, very exciting.

it is beautiful here

2009-05-11T19:14:00.002+03:00

looks like an interesting exhibition, wish I had wings to get there.

and good news! the weather forecast for this week is only up to 36 degrees max.! we won't get to 40's!

moments of despair

2009-05-11T17:03:00.003+03:00

when I put Nina down in her crib for her nap, after being totally asleep, she wakes up the moment up put her there, and she is completely awake. There goes my half an hour of freedom.
despair.

feeling blue

2009-05-09T18:08:00.004+03:00

and a link to an artist call.

finding it hard

2009-05-07T17:42:00.002+03:00

I am finding it harder and harder to publish my work here on the internet. I feel really bad about people that copy my work or down right steal it. Don't know how to solve this problem and still be able to get some feedback on my art. I wonder how do other people deal with this problem, do you just ignore it and keep working and publishing?
so instead here is a link to an interesting exhibition in NYC at the Queens museum of art, and an interview with the curator.
have a great day.

the reason

2009-01-28T12:13:00.003+02:00

so this is the reason why I have been behind in writing here.
I had no idea she will be so time consuming, and still figuring out how to be able to read more than two lines at a time in a book.
The wheels in my head have slowed down, but I'm sure this cannot go on forever.. right?..

discovering

2008-12-30T14:55:00.000+02:00

Odetta, great voice. RIP.

extented date for my exhibition

2008-08-06T20:07:00.001+03:00

I am happy to inform you of these good news - the closing date for my solo exhibition has been extended for another month. It will be up until August 25.
Hope you can make it!

solo exhibition

2008-07-21T22:20:00.004+03:00

Well, I guess I am really bad at this.. why? because this is the last week to view my solo exhibition in Galería Alternativa Once (San Pedro Garza García, México) and I am only posting about it now..
So to make up for the loss of time due to being busy with the actual exhibition, rather then posting about it, here are a few ways to look at it from different angles:
click here to view my website with images from the exhibition.
and below are a few images as well as the invitation with the address.

flight of the conchords

2008-04-29T17:00:00.003+03:00

Well I know it's really silly, and it's probably known to many of you already, but this show is so great! I love the sense of humor - that is - a lot of ridiculous nonsense. That being said here is a link to the website from HBO Flight of the Conchords. The creators Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement.

Miranda July

2008-03-26T18:26:00.003+02:00

I always enjoy Miranda July's work, and here is her new (very funny) short.

Video event in Brooklyn, March 30

2008-03-22T21:16:00.003+02:00

A video work of mine is going to be shown as part of an art event in Monkeytown, which is in Williamsburg, NYC (58 N 3rd St, Brooklyn): March 30 at 19:30 and 22:00.
Here are the links:
Urban Identity - Video Art & Architecture event on March 30, 2008.

Calendar and reservations in the website of Monkeytown

happy memory

2008-02-29T18:22:00.001+02:00

ode to grandma Jenya

2008-02-08T16:44:00.003+02:00

My grandmother passed away early this morning during her sleep.
Her birthday is coming up in two days, and she would have been 94 years old. She was a very dear woman, open hearted and sensitive, and will be missed very much by of our family and all the other people whom she has crossed paths with.
She and my grandfather, who is still very much alive, lived together since they were 25 (that's almost 70 years of sharing their lives!), and like many others were forced to leave their home in Poland because of the Nazi regime, and to start a long journey until they settled in a new house in Israel.
I was lucky to have known her, she will always be remembered and loved.

today I wanted to watch Godard but didn't have a car

2008-02-05T17:46:00.002+02:00

So instead I watched this:

and then I found this: le cinéma français.
The wonderful world wide web. There should be a temple in its honor.

2 clips from the movie Downtown 81

2008-02-04T16:22:00.002+02:00

the great Nina Simone

2008-01-23T20:23:00.002+02:00

Great great singer.

participation in collective exhibition

2008-01-23T14:12:00.001+02:00

Indiana University New Media & Video Festival - International Video Art &
Architecture Festival, IU Kokomo Art Gallery, Indiana University, Kokomo, USA.

The Miniature Earth

2007-12-18T17:29:00.001+02:00

Serfing and looking and wondering and getting lost in the ocean of internet webpages.
in this place miniature earth

another exhibition

2007-12-17T17:30:00.001+02:00

I participated in a video art event at Monkeytown, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC:
After Urban - Video Art & Architecture event. Here are a couple of links:
http://www.monkeytownhq.com
http://www.lucacurci.com

Robert Wyatt performing Gharbadzegi

2007-10-30T16:50:00.002+02:00

Robert Wyatt has a wonderful new album called Comicopera.
In honor of that, here he is performing Gharbadzegi from Old Rottenhat (1986). enjoy.

Collective Exhibition

2007-10-22T17:55:00.001+02:00

In an exhibition organized by Distrito 14 I have four photographs shown.
The opening is on October 24 at 18:00 at the Club de Ejecutivos in San Pedro Garza García, México.

W! [WATER] International Videoart event

2007-10-19T23:33:00.001+02:00

I have a couple of videos shown in this event in Italy.
Here is the link for W![WATER]International Videoart event, 5 Oct.- 5 Nov. 2007.

follwoing events

2007-10-05T17:23:00.002+02:00

The FORUM opened in Monterrey. This is a kind of festival that lasts about 3 months with many problems related. One easy question that comes to mind first of all for example: where are the (more than) 250 million dollars (!!!) which were spent form the Forum?? in the river Santa Lucia that was built very quickly in order to put some nice makeup to cover up the city's other cheek.
but what do I know. I'm not from here, here things are done differently.

Anyways, Goran Bregovic and orchestra played lovely and made our feet jump high in the air, a couple of weeks ago. So that counts for something.

after one month

2007-10-05T17:18:00.000+02:00

I didn't post nothing in one month, not because nothing had happened, but more because it is hard for me to be following events like this.
ok, it's because I am lazy at times.
I will do better.

Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes

2007-09-07T20:34:00.001+03:00

I like Maya Lin´s work, Systematic Landscapes in The St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum.

Vik Muniz

2007-09-07T20:32:00.002+03:00

not for piano

2007-09-03T18:24:00.002+03:00

Last week there was a mini festival of media art here in Monterrey.
We went to listen to Ivan Abreu giving a talk about his work in a conference called "La Poética de la Demostración".

A couple of days later we went to a concert "Not for Piano" of
Francesco Tristano playing together with Murcof which we like very much. The concert was wonderful, I wish it would have been longer. Sergio recorded some on video.

long day

2007-08-16T03:04:00.000+03:00

scanning and scanning and scanning and scanning.
Burnt my eyes today, scanning slides but got a lot of work done.

Here is something to enjoy from the movie Coffee and Cigarettes by Jim Jarmusch:

Untitled #954 by Masao Yamamoto

2007-07-26T23:43:00.000+03:00

Masao Yamamoto

Untitled #954
gelatin silver print
3 1/4 x 4 3/4"

W.G. Sebald

2007-07-26T23:14:00.000+03:00

A string of memories, like layers of crochet gently sewn one into the other. This book Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald is so wonderful. I don´t think I have read many books which were as strange or moving or overwhelming.
I don´t want the book to end, it is precious.

white light

2007-07-17T19:04:00.000+03:00

The screen with it´s white light is staring at me. I stare back at it. The blank page - so serene, awaits me. I push onto buttons on the keyboard, I look at them as they appear on my screen, erase some and push some more. And then the waiting again. For something to happen, for something. For it to make sense.

I put a piece of my new video Suspense on my website. Will be happy to get responses.

La Canícula

2007-07-15T20:26:00.000+03:00

Canícula. The hottest days.
That´s what it means in English according to Larousse Dictionary. That, is in a nutshell and does not demonstrate the length and the extreme of this term.
According to http://www.todito.com/paginas/noticias/88369.html
(in free translation): During the canícula, the heat is unbearable, the people sweat constantly, the animals go about with their tongues hanging out of their mouths, and others become crazy.
These high temp. can go beyond the 40´s (Celsius), starting mid June till the end of August.

Basically you want to die.

Here is another interesting definition from wikipedia:

clipped from en.wikipedia.org

The name of this star comes from the Latin Sīrius, from Greek Σείριος (Seirios, "glowing" or "scorcher").^[18] As the major star of the "Big Dog" constellation, it is often called the "Dog Star".

The Latin name for this star is Canicula ("little dog")

Historically, many cultures have attached special significance to Sirius. Sirius was worshipped as Sothis in the valley of the Nile long before Rome was founded. The Middle Kingdom of Egyptians based their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius, which occurred just before the annual flooding of the Nile and the summer solstice.^[19] In Greek mythology, Orion's dog became Sirius. The Greeks also associated Sirius with the heat of summer: they called it Σείριος Seirios, often translated "the scorcher." The dog days of summer were also connected to Sirius.

technical problems

2007-06-30T18:30:00.000+03:00

I knew that adjusting to a new place takes time, but why in the process of it all the machines around me have to fail?..
First it was the monitor of the computer, of course it had to happen while I was working on the new video. Then it was the car - so now I can really get stuck here in the house. And the cherry on top was the computer refusing to turn on since yesterday.
It´s like this: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I did finish the video and am proud of it. I was pregnant with this project for a few months now and didn't have time to work on the materials, they piled up and were bloating my head, calling me to take care of them..

I will try to post a small view from it in my art website as soon as the "!!·$%&/( computer feels better.

taking reality slowly

2007-06-21T17:22:00.000+03:00

It is two weeks since we moved to Mexico and things seem to be better already.
There has been some changes here since the last time I was here (three years ago). It has to do more with the mentality than with the outer look. The way people drive and go about is calmer for some reason - perhaps since there are more cops around (because of other problems) but it helps many other issues as well.. It is strange to have to say that it helps to have more security in the form of police or military officers, and it is quite sad to be that sober.. but this is such a huge city that there is no escape from this kind of reality.
Besides that, on a more personal note, my Spanish is better, I can actually understand what people around me are talking about and sometimes even answer back. That makes a huge difference, one doesn't feel so out of reality and isolated.

And the best thing for me is there are movements towards exhibitions and gallery contacts, I am charging my batteries and getting ready.

here are a couple of photos of my close surrounding, next time I will put wider range landscapes.

it's getting closer

2007-06-04T16:10:00.000+03:00

In 3 and a half days I am going to leave the place that I have lived in for the past 3 years, and although I am attached to my family and will miss them terribly, it is very refreshing to start in a new place.

here is something in honor of the moment:

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cool mash up

2007-05-11T11:29:00.002+03:00

terrible yellow light

2007-05-11T11:04:00.001+03:00

looks like a spaceship is going to land soon from the densely clouded sky

Island of the Flowers

2007-04-27T12:11:00.002+03:00

A short in spanish, worth watching. I should find more information about it. Maybe I am going far with it, but it actually gave me an association to movies made by Agnes Varda.

little boxes

2007-04-26T12:47:00.002+03:00

Here is a song by Melvina Reynolds that I like very much. Her voice is a little cracking and not perfect and that's why she is great. This might not be the best way to upload the song, but at least I was able to in the end..

The lives of others

2007-04-26T12:19:00.002+03:00

Recently we went to watch the movie The Lives of Others - I recommend it very much. The movie deals with a terrible period of time in the history of Eastern Germany, a few years before the wall fell. The film was not done in extravagance, nor is it shown as a melodrama, the dialogs are so precise and whatever happens is subtle, unfolding quietly as if we (the viewers) are entering the lives of these people instead of showing events with a starting point, middle and end. To me, the film had a poetic cloak to it that I miss in life around now. Perhaps it is because I am so caught up in the mundane at the moment, it was like a breath of fresh air to listen to a few lines from Brecht quoted in the movie. Also, I liked very much the painting which hanged in the apartment of the main characters.

And of course without a funny small incident the experience wouldn't be complete: as we were waiting for the movie to begin for some mysterious reason, one of most annoying songs that exists was played to our benefit (it makes my ears hurt) - Hotel California of The Eagles! and to top that, the couple sitting behind had to sing along and really made me want to cry..

Here is the link to the film's website, although I am not sure how well is the trailer in giving away some of the essence of the movie.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/thelivesofothers/

arrr arrangements

2007-04-21T11:03:00.000+03:00

arrangements
what an annoying word.
I try to avoid it my whole life and yet it seems that most of the day is made of bits and pieces of time frames that were created for the holy ceremony of arranging things.

Now it is the matter of getting rid of our earthly belongings (printer, scanner, book shelves and so on and so forth), finding new homes for the 2 cats (Chula and Gogol) and deciding which books am I taking with me and which will stay hiding in boxes somewhere until the day they can meet sunlight once again.

This odyssey is a process I don't recommend.
More about the Odyssey probably next time.

event in Jerusalem

2007-04-13T13:07:00.000+03:00

THE BOOKSHOP AT THE AMERICAN COLONY HOTEL AND IBIS EDITIONS

are pleased to invite you to

an evening of Palestinian poetry and prose

in English and Arabic

with

Samih al-Qasim

and

Peter Theroux

in celebration of the publication of two new books:

Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems by Samih al-Qasim, translated by Nazih Kassis, introduced by Adina Hoffman

and

Saraya, the Ogrea's Daughter by Emile Habiby, translated by Peter Theroux

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 6 PM, THE PASHA ROOM, THE AMERICAN COLONY

23 Nablus Road, Jerusalem

02-627-9731

Kurt Vonnegut

2007-04-13T13:05:00.000+03:00

from CNN:
Kurt Vonnegut, whose novels included "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cat's
Cradle," has died at 84, his wife tells The Associated Press.

addiction

2007-04-13T11:56:00.000+03:00

my eyes are burning, my pulse is high.
what is this feeling running through my body.
ah yes! i cannot stop playing these ridiculous computer games!
ruining my eyesight and making me anxious, obsessed and hollow.
must-stop-playing-must-stop-playing
my new mantra.
ok just this level?..

if you live in NYC

2007-04-11T14:45:00.000+03:00

Here is something I got from 16beaver from NYC:

what: Presentation / Discussion
When: Friday evening 4.13.07
Where: 16Beaver Street, 4th Floor
When: 7:30 pm
Who: Free and open to all

We are very pleased to have photographer
Deborah Bright and Israeli-American writer
and scholar, Linda Dittmar, at 16beaver.
Deborah and Linda will present an informal slide preview
of their collaborative project documenting remains
of the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe)
when some 750,000 Palestinians were exiled
from their homes in what became the State of Israel.

We hope you can join us for what promises
to be a thought-provoking evening.

_____________________________________________
2. about the project

This work is predicated on the belief that until
the pain and losses (of family,community, homeland)
of the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 (not to mention 1967)
are publicly recognized and dealt with by both Israel
and its primary sponsor, the United States,
no lasting peace and stability is possible.

_____________________________________________
3. about Deborah Bright & Linda Dittmar

Deborah Bright is an internationally known photographer,
writer, and professor of photography at RISD.
She edited 'The Passionate Camera:
photography and bodies of desire' (1998).
More information about her work
can be found at http://www.deborahbright.com

Linda Dittmar grew up as a third generation
Israeli who witnessed the events of 1948 as a child
in Tel Aviv. She is professor of literature and film
at the University of Massachusetts, Boston,
and co-edited 'From Hanoi to Hollywood:The Vietnam War in Film'
and 'Multiple Voices in Feminist Film Criticism'.


__________________________________________________
16 Beaver Group
16 Beaver Street, 4th / 5th fl.
New York, NY 10004
phone: 212.480.2099

for directions/subscriptions/info visit:
http://www.16beavergroup.org

TRAINS:
4,5 Bowling Green
R,W Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street
J,M Broad Street
1,9 South Ferry



__________________________________________________
16 Beaver Group
16 Beaver Street, 4th / 5th fl.
New York, NY 10004
phone: 212.480.2099

for directions/subscriptions/info visit:
http://www.16beavergroup.org

TRAINS:
4,5 Bowling Green
R,W Whitehall
2,3 Wall Street
J,M Broad Street
1,9 South Ferry

something to see

2007-04-11T14:08:00.000+03:00

Meanwhile I get familiar with the whole blogging thing, here is a photograph I took recently from the TV screen:

Besides being part of a new project I am working on, it just about sums what is going on in my life at the moment.

first timer

2007-04-11T13:39:00.000+03:00

I am a virgin blogger.
Yes, no shame in admitting that (ok, maybe a little shame).

I feel the urge to put my thoughts out there in the open space of the unknown as I am about to enter some big changes in my life: My partner (who is a "Mexicanian" as our dear German friend calls him) and I (not a Mexicanian) will be moving to Mexico in a couple of months and I am hoping that putting some of the fears on writing will make them a little bit less significant..

Obviously (to me), there is also a kind of romanticism in writing my thoughts in a Blog. Probably old fashioned yet has a certain kind of appeal - this adding of my existence to the world of the wide web. Call it an experiment in discovering little bits of truths about yourself, looking at that little pool of narcissism.

I am not sure how often will I add new posts here, but this will be a trial for some time - for someone that routine is not one of her favorite things might be a tad bit difficult.