Sunday
Opening remarks
Eyal Danon
Opportunities and limitations of socially Engaged Art
Matthias Einhoff
Monday
Neighborhood Artist
Leah Abir and Meir Tati
Situate and Suspend
Ruti Sela, and Shay-Lee Uziel with Gilly Karjevsky & Hila Cohen-Schneiderman.
Art as a Community
Neta Weiner and Mai Omer
Wasteland Twinning
Matthias Einhoff
Tuesday
Objects and Actions as Community-Building Tools
Marjetica Potrč and students from Design for the Living World
Institutional Struggle and Action
Yehuda Alush & Nisan Almog
Tattoos
Aurele Mechler
Social Work and Social Activism
Maozia Segal, and Iris Tzur
Wednesday
Glocal Neighbors
Hadas Ophrat and Glocal Neighbors Project participants
Civic Architecture
Liat Brix-Etgar, Ytav Bouhsira, & Dana Gazy
City Council
Improvisation Moderated by Matthias Einhoff
Neighborhood World War
Sharon Rothbard
Concluding Remarks
Eyal Danon
The conference and the reader made possible with the generous support of the German-Israeli Future Forum fund, Goethe-Institute Israel, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Mifal Hapais Arts and Culture Council, ifa, Artport
The conference concludes the Glocal Neighbors Project, a collaboration between the Jessy Cohen Neighborhood in Holon and the Nordbahnhof Neighborhood in Stuttgart, Germany. The project has been operating for the past two years, and members include artists, architects, social workers, community activists, and others from the two neighborhoods. It focuses on joint learning processes, mutual professional visits, and building online and physical databases in both neighborhoods. The basic principle guiding their work is the aspiration to form coalitions between different disciplines, such as social work, education, work with youth-at-risk, community work, and art, out of a belief that that this kind of partnership constitutes a necessary basis for changing reality. The joint work is based on the recognition that the reality of life in the Jessy Cohen Neighborhood is not the result of a blow dealt by nature, and it is not inevitable, but the result of municipal, national, and global policies. And this holds true for many neighborhoods like it both in Israel and around the world. This resulted in the understanding that inter-neighborhood networks need to be built that will enable us to learn and collaborate in order to contend with this reality.
The conference engages in the neighborhood as an arena for global forces and processes, and examines a variety of ideas and practices from Israel and around the world for contending with these forces and processes – with emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration between art, education, social work, and associated disciplines. This perception clearly correlates with the Center’s work process in the Jessy Cohen Neighborhood over the past five years.
The conference program is based on activities and presence, and includes lectures and presentations, audience discussions, ceremonies, workshops, and projects that came out of the Center into the neighborhood, and involves residents and additional local institutions. Some of the activities to be presented at the conference began several weeks ago, and will hopefully continue developing after it. Presence at the conference will be centered around the Center complex and the neighborhood, in the framework of which a social café, an archival space, a modular space for lectures and debates, and a print-on-demand publishing space for the chrestomathy will be set up.
Radio Halas
Radio Halas will be broadcasting live from the studio in the complex throughout the conference. editos: Dani Meir, Ophir Ilzetzki.
Kitchen
Architecture collective Umschichten will design and set up modular extensions of the kitchen: a collaboration conceived from a recognition of the importance of the kitchen as the heart of the CDA, and an informal meeting place that is essential for involved action. The extended kitchen will continue operating for gatherings and projects, and will be at the disposal of the community in the neighborhood.
Lobby
The Center’s new lobby, which has been built in recent months by artists Ira Shalit and Mai Omer and youths from the Hall Project, will be inaugurated during the conference. The lobby will contribute to a pleasant visit at the Center, and will stand at the disposal of all the individuals, groups, and audiences coming to it.
Every Day
18:00-21:00 - Active Printing Station
During the conference a print-on-demand chrestomathy will be produced comprising four subject-specific booklets containing articles as well as documentary material resulting from the conference itself. People can choose to receive the entire chrestomathy or part of it, and in which language.
Monday-Wednesday
09:30-12:00 - Culinary Encounters in the Jessy Cohen Neighborhood
The project will provide access to and bring together a variety of cuisines and cultures from the Jessy Cohen Neighborhood. Prior acquaintance with the residents and preliminary research will yield fusion menus comprising different culinary traditions from the neighborhood. Additionally, cooking workshops led by neighborhood residents will be held throughout the conference: an opportunity to taste, hear, get to know, and connect different stories and cultures in the neighborhood.
15:00-19:00- Archive of the Future
The growing archive of the CDA’s activities in the neighborhood, created in collaboration with students from the postgraduate program at The Faculty of Arts – Hamidrasha at Beit Berl Academic College. Participants: Navah Joy Uzan, Uri Noam, Aya Nitzan.
Be’al Peh: Thalia Hoffman
Be’al Peh (Speaking It), which operates as part of Radio Halas, is a platform for the stories of residents of the neighborhoods located along the Ayalon South Highway. During the conference Ayalon Highway Radio will broadcast conversations with residents, recorded stories, thoughts about the needs and desires of the region’s community radio operators, and socio-geographic discussions about the different neighborhoods along the Ayalon South Highway.
Monday-Tuesday
15:00-19:00 – Photography Studio
Concurrently with her exhibition, which is showing during the conference, photographer Dafna Shalom will operate a photography studio and invite the general public to take a personal or family photograph, or scan historical and family photographs. The neighborhood residents and conference participants will be invited to have their photograph taken in keeping with the longstanding tradition of photography, enabling the direct involvement of the people being photographed with the manner of their representation.
Culinary Encouters in Jessy Cohen
You are invited to sign up for culinary workshops that offer an acquaintance with Jessy Cohen neighborhood through its diverse food culture. The neighborhood consists of various communities - each sharing a unique history and culture; therefore, we will focus on prominent cuisines inviting the participants to ask, smell and take these recipes back home.
Monday 14.12
10:00-11:30 - Yemenite cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make classic Yemenite dips (vegeterian).
11:15-12:30 - Bukharian cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make one Bukharian signature dish (meat).
Tuesday 15.12
10:00-11:30 - Persian cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make one Persian signature dish - "Gondi" soup (meat).
11:45-12:45 - Ethiopian cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make "Injera" bread and will explain about typical Ethiopian spices (vegetarian).
Wednesday 16.12
10:00-11:15 - Russian/Ukrainian cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make one Russian/Ukrainian signature dish (vegeterian/meat).
11:30-12:30 - Moroccan cuisine - the instructor of the workshop will demonstrate how to make one traditional Moroccan fish.
For registration: info@digitalartlab.org.il
The CDA's archives are operating with the support of the Ostrovsky Family Fund and Artis
