Ben-Ner’s video piece, Karaoke, is a transvestite depiction – albeit virtuoso and humorous – of the artist’s penis singing. Exposed in extreme close-up, “decorated” with two stick-on puppet eyes, the artist’s fingers hold the glands, making the penis sing along with Connie Francis’s Lipstick on Your Collar ... Ben-Ner adopts the direct camera approach characteristic of body-art and performance documentation: a single frontal shot with no editing. The beginning and end are clearly drawn from the artist’s entrance and exit… (Sergio Edelsztein)
Also found on the compilation, ”The Zionist Ventriloquist” curated by Roee Rosen. The Zionist Ventriloquist brings together Israeli video works based on pop, rock and other musical tunes. All of the featured works employ practices of doubled voices, such as drag, karaoke, puppet mastering, mash-up and dubbing. These are performances that relish the pleasures of singing and dancing, even as they bind them with parody and deception, self-contradiction and simulation. This collection, then, is both a compilation of artworks, a lopsided sequence of music clips, and an ongoing reflection on the voice as a hybrid.
Soundtrack: Connie Francis, “Lipstick on Your Collar”
ארכיוני המרכז הוקמו בתמיכת קרן אוסטרובסקי וארטיס
