For two weeks Public Movement will be studying the relations between youth, passion and pioneering, the tension between the longing for the land from afar (Sehnsucht) and the physical practices of nation building, and will examine the physical and choreographic expressions of the yearning for Zion/Palestine/Israel.
In those couple of weeks, in addition their actions in the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Public Movement will also work in Neve Arazim neighborhood (that surrounds the Center), in Holon city center and in a wheat field.
2.5 Holocaust Memorial Day, Public Movement made an action in Weizman Square, Holon
9.5 Eve of Independence Day, starting at 19:00 Public Movement invites the public for a double screening of live TV + video, image and text VJ.
screen #1 - The official Israeli Independence Day Ceremony, a live broadcast from Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
screen #2 - live VJ set by Yochai Avrahami, Avi Pitchon, Mai Omer, Orr Menirom and Public Movement.
Free Entrance, All is Welcome
11.5 at 18:00 Public Movement will host "Lech Lecha" - a group of young Zionists from South America who arrived to Israel as part of the "Masa" (journey) program of the Jewish Agency.
The meeting is open to the public
14.5 First screening of a new Public Movement video, produced by the Israeli Center for Digital Art. The video features the Movement members and is shot these days in fields and orchards in Israel. After the screening, the movement invites the public to participate in an action in the center.
Public Movement was founded in November 2006 by Dana Yahalomi and Omer Krieger,it explores the political and aesthetic possibilities residing in a group of people acting together. The movement operates in public spaces, studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement’s actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity. It is a representative group, a selected team of artists, with the prospect of becoming a mass movement.
www.publicmovement.org
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