The Jerusalem Season of Culture presents: Mekudeshet 2017
The Jerusalem Season of Culture
presents:
Mekudeshet 2017
Challenging the world's conversation
about Jerusalem
As public
debate swirls over how to mark 50 years since the Six Day War, Mekudeshet
invites audiences to set aside reflexive positions and dead-end arguments about
the conflict and reexamine Jerusalem and its multiplicity of realities.
Mekudeshet will stretch the boundaries of art, identity and sacredness in
Jerusalem, challenging audiences to expand their perspectives, replace
knee-jerk responses and cultivate understanding and empathy.
For three
and a half weeks, Mekudeshet will translate the uniqueness of Jerusalem into a
series of city-specific events that will rise to these challenges and keep you
guessing. Innovative and fast-moving artistic frameworks will provide fresh
perspectives, challenging ideas, journeys into the city’s fascinating
undercurrents and introduce audiences to some of the many residents who are
rethinking the city.
Mekudeshet
also launched a brand new digital platform this summer with a specially
commissioned clip—“Open Jerusalem”. The platform will provide access to the
festival’s events to audiences throughout the world, share specially created
digital art and generate a robust debate about the city, art, Mekudeshet and
everything in between.
Artistic Director: Itay Mautner
Executive Director: Naomi Bloch Fortis
The
Program
Roof hopping
in Jerusalem—a unique opportunity to experience the city, art and some fresh
perspectives from Jerusalem’s rooftops; a second chance to take part in
doco-theatrical journeys in the footsteps of the city’s boundary dissolvers; a
one-time invitation to participate in a real academic study that is also a
performance; experimental nighttime sounds and experiences from deep within the
city’s natural world; urban
ceremonies
that will lull you to sleep, share losses and gains, invite you to release a
few endorphins and encourage you to let go; an attempt to melt the region’s
borders with its hottest musical, artistic, fashion and culinary trends; and a
chance to share musical experiences with musicians of every color and creed who
will ascend to Jerusalem to celebrate what they consider sacred.
Mekudeshet, Jerusalem, summer 2017
Above and
Beyond
An art
exhibition on the city’s roofs
August
23-31
An
innovative project that invites audiences to change their
perspective—literally—by climbing up to some of Jerusalem’s most extraordinary
rooftops, which are usually closed to the public. Audiences will be given a
unique opportunity to hop from one roof to another in downtown Jerusalem,
experience site-specific, multidisciplinary art, breathe in fresh air and fresh
perspectives, and to take up an offer to spend the night sleeping on the roof
of a local family home in the Old City.
5 Ways to
Dissolve Boundaries
Journeys
on the seamline between art and reality in Jerusalem
English
tours: September August 23, 29 and September 4,11
Audiences
will be invited to discover Jerusalem anew—by foot or minibus—while stepping
out of their comfort zones and into the lives of Jerusalem’s boundary
dissolvers, whose identities traverse lines of right and left, religious and
secular, east and west, Palestinian and Israeli. Far off the beaten path of
religious shrines, archaeological digs, and Zionist monuments, participants
journey deep into the worlds of real but extraordinary Jerusalemites,
zigzagging across seen, unseen physical and conceptual boundaries.
Basic
Assumption
Artistic
performances in a laboratory researching emotions
August
24
There are certain
emotions that are an essential but increasingly scarce element of a functioning
democratic society. Artist Einat Amir and social psychologist, Yossi Hasson join
forces for one evening in which audiences will participate in an ongoing academic
study on one of these emotions that is also an interactive art performance. For ten hours, in the heart of Jerusalem, we
will create a human laboratory while, at the same time, providing a
multisensory artistic experience that includes video art and live interaction
with a team of actors.
Echoes
A
nighttime sound experience in the heart of the most urban valley in the
neighborhood.
August
31
Now in its
second year, Echoes will feature international sound artists and invite
audiences
to
experience a different side of Jerusalem—its nature—by venturing deep in to the
Valley
of the Cross
in the dark of night. Participants will create their own experiences, sit and
listen to music, and carve out their own route as they unearth experimental
sounds, acoustic performances, site-specific frequencies and experimental
machinery.
Rites of
Here and Now
Four
new urban ceremonies that rely entirely on the audience
August
24-September 14
A series of
contemporary urban ceremonies created especially for Jerusalem—a city replete
with ritualistic traditions—including: a contemporary interpretation of the
“reclaiming stone” from Jewish tradition in which participants will look for
things they have lost and share what they have found in public space; a night
of dream music spun by a DJ as audiences lay side-by-side on mattresses; a new
running ritual for serious runners that combines a performative tour,
extraordinary views of Jerusalem and a haze of endorphins; a simple action that
demands absolute trust and much more.
Kulna
(All of Us)
This
is what our dreams sound like in the Middle East
September
7
A massive,
colorful celebration for all Jerusalemites in the open air that allows music
and art to melt the borders of our region. On the seamline between East and
West Jerusalem, thousands of people from all backgrounds will come together to
enjoy a taste of the contemporary culture of the Middle East—food, fashion,
design, architecture, visual art, and, of course, music. The centerpiece of the
evening will be a lively, original production by the Jerusalem Orchestra of
Eastern and Western Music (formerly known as the Jerusalem Andalusian
Orchestra), featuring Israeli and Palestinian soloists. The project will also be streamed live across
the globe to partnering cultural institutions.
Sacred
Music
A musical
celebration that spans borders, styles and faiths
September
7-15
Musicians of
every color, faith, orientation and corner of the world will ascend to
Jerusalem for a
musical pilgrimage that celebrates all. From the heart of the Tower of David,
new voices will ring forth from Jerusalem. We will also present original
productions created especially for the festival and showcase local musical
talent though our signature Night Stroll, which keeps seven stages going
simultaneously all night long across the Tower of David.
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