Collaborations
Featuring
LAND
Zohar Elazar & Yuval Yairi
04:36 min. HD video, 2013
https://vimeo.com/79281145
LAND presents a filmed series of acts performed over several months and presented as non-linear fragments. Two opposing forces are in confrontation: a human figure and the letters of a word. The figure confronts the word and the power of its connotations by attempting to deconstruct it, to destroy it but also to come to terms with it.
+ READ MORE
Holding a pole and the four letters of the word LAND, the figure undergoes transformations in its relationship with the actual place - the enclosed space, and the word itself. There are "ceremonies" and "rituals" that allude to heroic monuments and local or universal icons. The work offers an examination of the idea of historical, religious or moral rights to a place, rights which are usually enforced by violence - occupation, illegal settlement, colonization, deportation, exile - matters of choice or force.
The attitude of the human figure changes from a love of homeland and the desire for self-sacrifice, to a surrendering to fate, a feeling of claustrophobia and despair, and the desire to break away and leave for another place.
LAND
Zohar Elazar & Yuval Yairi
04:36 min. HD video, 2013
https://vimeo.com/79281145
LAND presents a filmed series of acts performed over several months and presented as non-linear fragments. Two opposing forces are in confrontation: a human figure and the letters of a word. The figure confronts the word and the power of its connotations by attempting to deconstruct it, to destroy it but also to come to terms with it.
DETAI
May Zarhy feat. Zohar Elazar
https://vimeo.com/457701144
Password: detail2020
A collaboration between choreographer May Zarhy and video artist Zohar Elazar.
The liveness and physical proximity happening in a performance setting have been converted during the lockdown caused by Covid-19 into the domestic two-dimensionality, where what appears on the screen was so-called supposed to replace the experience happening in the theater. ‘Detail’ operates from the recognition that there is no such substitute, that shared space and presence are invaluable, thus asking what can be found choreographically through this transition from the medium of performance to that of video.
+ READ MORE
In continuation to Zarhy’s work in recent years, the female voice intertwined with the potential sculpturality of the body explores how one can dive into the experience of intimacy and the felt sense thanks to the fact that physical presence, breath and body proximity on screen do not threaten us. The work is choreographed by the tension between the movement of the bodies and the use of the frame of the camera, allowing the viewers a peak into theatricality, while being in their homes.