Compositions for Timespace - This Does Not Die - Roiy Nitzan and Avishai Cohen
Compositions
for Timespace
A
series of three exhibitions presenting cooperation between visual artists and
musicians and examining the link between plastic art and music through audio
visual dialogue. Each pair of artists defines and constructs the work’s viewing
and listening conditions, and thus each encounter creates a different dynamic
between the physical visual image and the sounds resonating in the space
Laurence Graff Contemporary Art
Gallery, Herta and Paul Amir Building
Curators : Tal Lanir and Hagit Emma
Werner
[Chapter 3]
This Does Not Die
Roiy Nitzan and Avishai Cohen
30.9.17–20.7.17
In the third and final chapter of the series
"Compositions for TimeSpace" artist Roiy Nitzan and musician Avishai
Cohen present a cinematographic work that examines the power of musical themes
on dramatic effect. In This Does Not Die they offer a personal
interpretation of the poem "Intent" by American poet/writer Susan
Scutti - Nitzan's is cinematic, contemplating inter-generational relationships,
while Cohen's is a lyrical and melodical exploration of the poem.
The video work is not dependent on a linear narrative or a
cinematic structure with a beginning and an end, but focuses on one scene of a
father and son sharing a moment in time. Lingering over that moment enables
Nitzan to weave together different times and concentrate on the tension between
truth and fiction, between memory and dream. Compared with the video, the
musical work has a clear narrative and melodic structure; however, instead of
withdrawing ino the snug structure of a pop song, Cohen breaks away with
tradition and stretches the limits of the structure, inserting various themes
and colors into it. In its encounter with the video, the music at times leads
and at times seems to take a step back and provide the ambience. At times it
stands aloof as a text, at others it becomes the subtext of the figure on
screen.
The idea at the core of the work was indeed conceived by the
artists together, but developing the video and the music was done separately.
Consequently, each component of the work is of different length, and the
encounter between the media becomes random. The visual image overlaps the music
at various points and in return creates varying, dynamic encounters that allow
for the creation of different variations of linking the seen and the heard,
imbuing each frame with a different quality. Rather than accompanying each
other, the pieces seek the balance point just before the music becomes the
soundtrack serving the image—as often occurs in the cinematic medium and before
the film becomes a video clip serving the music - as often occurs on music
channels and on YouTube.
Cast
Avshalom Pollak
Tom Lahav
Micah Lewensohn z"l
Natalia Faust
Lihu Nitzan
Video Crew Cinematography: Gil
Ezrahi . Gaffer: Aviezer Dasberg. Assistant director:
Maya Hofman. Makeup artist:
Karin Geva .Set dresser:
Batzion Rogozinsky. Producer: Alma
Ben-Zeev.Colorist: Ido Karilla
Music Credits Vocals: Gretchen Parlato Keyboard: Jason Lindner Guitar: Yonatan Albalak Piano: Yonathan Avishai Trumpet, flute, keyboard: Avishai Cohen Bass: Roy
Avital Musical production: Roy Avital, Avishai Cohen
The work was produced with support from the Tel Aviv–Yafo
Department of Culture & Arts and the Yehoshua Rabinowitz Foundation for the
Arts; musical production was made possible thanks to Mati Broudo and Rothschild
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