Artistic Director: Udi Edelman
Artistic Producer: Shimrit Gil
Curator of Public Space Performances: Meir Tati
Sound Performance Curator: Daniel Meir
Production and Technical Assistance: Nir Sagiv, Avigail Surovich, Yonatan Geron, Eili Levy, Noga Rozman
Design: Shual.com, Guy Saggee
Editing: Noa Shuval
English Translation: Margalit Rodgers
The event was made possible thanks to generous donations of the Danziger Family, Rivka Saker, and Uri Katzenstein’s family.
Who Comes After Us? is a multidisciplinary event inspired by and in the spirit of Uri Katzenstein, and marks the thirtieth anniversary of his death. Katzenstein was a radical artist whose work was typified by unique, uncompromising connections between performance, sound, video, and sculpture. In his work he frequently engages with essence of human existence in the world, the anomalies within it, and the presence of the body, its wounds, and its distortions. Katzenstein repeatedly pushed the boundaries of medium, and paved new ways for numerous artists who came after him. He was a friend of the Center for Digital Art from its very beginnings, he founded Radio Halas at the Center (https://halas.am), and was a valuable partner in many of its projects.
The event seeks to create a community of artists continuing in his spirit, and to constitute an annual gathering place for artists working between media boundaries and on the experimental forefront. It includes performances, and performance, sound, video, and mixed media works by various artists, as well as early works by Katzenstein, which will be shown for the first time in forty years. We will also be launching the Uri Katzenstein Award, and an album of his sound works.
“Who comes after us?” is posed as an open question to the artists and the audience, and as an invitation to engage with the change and evolution of human life, with the possibility of imagining new realms, and to experiment and push boundaries. This echoes French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, who in 1991 asked scholars and philosophers “Who comes after the subject?” This question attempted to capture a key moment in Continental Philosophy, what is known as “Death of the Subject” in the postmodernism of the mid-twentieth century. Thirty years later, the present project invites broad thinking about a potential change in the meaning of being human in the present and future, given the changes humanity has been undergoing in recent decades; changes stemming from ecological, social, and political crises coupled with rapid technological developments, connection to digital spaces, and changing perceptions of human life, such as post-humanism that imagines a changing or substituted humanity arising from global and local contexts. These issues occupied Katzenstein in many of his works, and influenced how he sought to address a future community.
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18:00-22:00
Tal Rosen
Split Ends // Performance
Human hair collected from hair salons over several months, spread like a carpet in a small room. On the carpet of hair, a man and a woman sit on chairs. The man braids the woman’s hair into a long braid, then unbraids it, and re-braids it. The work presents the relative abjection of human hair once it has been detached from the scalp, compared to the excitement and admiration it evokes when it is groomed and put on display on a person’s head.
Participants: Tal Rosen, Tamar Landsberg Yakerevich
18:30-19:30
Shaul Kohn
Shaul Kohn // Performance
Shaul Kohn plays bass, objects, microphones, and speakers.
19:00-19:30
Guy Dubious
Bleedbox // Performance
A needle bleeds out an immanent flow of radio waves. The waves in themselves are unheard, only when they are shed through a receiver they become audible, they become an image. A singular event will take place, the bleedbox encounters Doctor Mouth-Bleed - Amir Givon.
19:30-20:00
Nimrod Gershoni
Synthetic Passage // Performance
Live performance in a setting that is something between a television studio and a makeshift home space. A synthesis of sound and video is woven before the audience, and emerges as an abstract meditative expression into a reflexive melodic work.
19:30-20:00
Eran Sachs, David Opp., Alex Drool, Adam Scheflan
CadaverEyesUponMeSee // Performance
CadaverEyesUponMeSee is an ensemble that performs soft, quiet versions of CadaverEyes noise songs. The same amount of energy directed inward rather than outward.
20:00-21:00
Yuval Mendelson and Assaf Talmudi
Music performance and musings about life in this place, about who and what we are, and about the future.
20:00-20:30
Shahar Marcus
Hand Made // Performance
A public space performance that explores text by means of action, discovery, and disappearance.
20:30-21:30
Zohar Shafir
nico teen // Performance
Nico Teen in a hypnotic pop performance accompanied by singers Shira Ydov and Peleg Halfin, and saxophonist Shoham Sakana Manela. Shafir engages with the spaces between nostalgia, deconstruction of popular music, and traditions originating from rock and roll.
21:00-22:00
Netta Weiser
Radio-Choreography: Episode 2. Closer Than It Seems // Public Listening Event (Israeli premiere)
A radiophonic archive of dance works created by female choreographers during times of migration and border crossing.
This is the second in a series of four episodes broadcast live from dance archives in Berlin, Cologne, Tel Aviv, and Vienna. The performance sketches a regional, Middle Eastern dance history, including sounds from Beirut, voices from Athens, and rustlings from Jerusalem.
The radio-performance is broadcast live from the Beit Ariela Dance Archive in Tel Aviv as part of Diver Festival, and transmitted live by Radio Halas. The audience is invited to gather and listen together.
Choreographer and Artistic Director: Netta Weiser
Radio Artist/Producer: Lena Kosicova
Historical Input: Anna Leon
Dramaturgy: Fransien Van der Putt
Composers/Sound Artists: Marta Gentilucci, Azadeh Nilchiani, Miriam Schickler
Performers: Tehila Nini Goldstein, Michaela Catranis, Netta Weiser
Somatic Research: Mira Hirtz
Production: Shira Tabachnick
21:30
Launch of the new Uri Katzenstein Award for Multidisciplinary Artists
Presentation of the award program, and screening video works by Katzenstein:
The Word is Vrum Vrum, 16mm, 1979
Anna’s Assignment, 2017
22:00-24:00
Ohad Fishof, Ishai Adar, Binya Reches
Launching Uri Katzenstein – Audio Works, A new album of Katzenstein’s sound works.
Ohad Fishof, Ishai Adar, and Binya Reches, the musicians and creators who collected the sound works by Katzenstein and curated the new album, will hold a guided listening to rare and unique segments from Katzenstein’s estate. The digital version of the album will be launched at the event, and a double vinyl album will be released in 2022.
18:00-22:00 in the main building – video and sound art works, installations, early film works by Uri Katzenstein and "Neo-Lith"
Adar Goldfarb
The Almost Room // Installation
A space containing an assemblage of objects in various intermediate states of movement and presence.
Ana Wild
Making a Great Leap Forward! // video
Through use of text and field recordings, the video etude Making a Great Leap Forward! is an attempt to engage an “inner voice”. It explores the discrepancy between hearing and imagining, and considering movement through time and space as a physical, psychological, and spiritual process.
Uri Katzenstein
Early 8mm Film Works
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Uri Katzenstein created a series of experiments in film – conceptual and performative gestures. These works will be shown for the first time in several decades.
Igor Simic
Instant but Distant // video
A 3-track EP of quarantine-made music and paper-VJ-ing. All the images play with internet culture and handwritten, material note-taking on immaterial, digital images, inspired by Duchamp’s extensive photocopied notes.
Written, directed, produced, and drawn by Igor Simic
Composed, arranged, and mixed by Shane Berry
Vocals by Igor Simic and Shane Berry
Chanan Ben Simon and Inkyoung Bae
Unnatural History Museum // Installation
A bird longingly remembers its past as a dinosaur, and a plastic bag in the role of God watches us from the beginning to the end of time.
Ido Gordon
Epilogue
A short comic strip that tells the story of two chairs in an attempt to respond to the question: “What happens to the sculpture after the artist dies?” The comic strip was first published in Hoshech magazine (2021).
Tair Uria
Crocodiled Algorithm: Periodic Name // Video installation and sculpture
A crocodile tells the story of the unknown and the unconscious. The crocodile, who has emerged from a childhood memory or a distant story, has shed the burden of reality, and in an imaginary occurrence she has developed independence, which is embodied in her future incarnations.
Tami Ben Tor
Ruth Katz // Video
Loosely based on a journalistic interview with Ruth Katz – an Ashkenazi woman and Israel Prize laureate.
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