Musrara Mix Festival 2018 – Breathturn - May 29-31 Musrara Jerusalem
May 29-31 (Tuesday-Thursday) between 19:00 to 23:00
Throughout Musrara neighborhood in Jerusalem
Admission to all events is free
The Musrara Mix
International Art Festival returns for 18th year to the Musrara neighborhood in
Jerusalem, with a rich multidisciplinary program featuring dozens of artists
and musicians from Israel and around the world. The artworks, the music
performances and the seminars will take
place within the gallery complexes, courtyards, halls, streets and public
spaces of the neighborhood and allow for free wandering and exploration
throughout Musrara - a fascinating multicultural neighborhood in Jerusalem.
The
yearly festival, initiated and produced by Musrara - the Naggar School of Art
and Society, will focus on uncertainty and disruptions, with the term Breathturn as coined by Paul Celan, one of the greatest European
and Jewish poets of modern times, suggesting methods that can hold us and
maintain balance in uncertainty to give hope, but these methods also change all
the time.
"Musrara Mix - Breathturn" offers visitors a window to a
new, complex, fickle and surprising reality.
Artists
featured in the festival:
Tracey Moffatt (representing
Australia at the last Venice Biennale), Nina Fischer and Maroan El-Sani
(Germany), Bjørn Melhus (Germany), Angela Lamprianidou (Greece) and Irineu
Marcovecchio (Brazil), Anna Kalwajtys (Poland), Łukasz Trusewicz (Poland), Aleks
Slota (Poland), Milena Kipfmüller and Klaus Janek (Germany), Lior Gal (Israel /
France), Renata Sheppard (Italy/USA), Francesca Fini (Italy) Chryssa Tsampazi
(Greece), Haim Ben Shitrit, Yossi Mar-Haim, Adaya Godlevsky, Michal Schreiber,
Michal Samama, Uri Levinson, Sharon Fidel, students and graduates of various
departments in Musrara and more.
Musical performances
featured in the festival's:
On the main stage: Noga Erez, Moses Project,
Flora (Liron Meshulam), ORI, Geshem - hosting Zvia Abarbanel and other
musicians.
In the series "Musrarsonics": Maya
Dunietz, Valerio Tricoli (Italy), Jean Philippe Gross (France), Ma'ayan Tsdaka,
Ophir Bachmutsky and others.
Festival Director
and Chief Curator: Avi Sabag |
Exhibition Curator: Sharon Horodi |
Gallery Curators: Ayelet Hashachar Cohen, Vanina Saracino (Italy), Vera
Korman | Musical Directors,
main stage: Motti Cohen, Assaf Sabag (on a voluntary basis) | Musical Director, Electro-Acoustic
Program: Eran Sachs |
Musical Director, student and graduate performances: Ilan Green
Special exhibitions and programs at the festival:
"Behavior
Problems" – performance program in
Gan Haksamim
Every year, The Musrara Mix Festival presents
dozens of profermance artworks (combining plastic art with stage arts). This
year the festival will hold its first special program dedicated to the art of performance,
being most fitting to illustrate principles of uncertainty in art - when the
event is never entirely predicted. The program will take place in Gan Haksamim,
located in the center of the Musrara neighborhood, and will allow visitors to directly
take part in the creative process.
One of the highlights is a special program from
Poland, where performance art developed in the 1960s. Three artists (Anna
Kalwajtys, Łukasz
Trusewicz and Aleks Slota)
will present new works created especially for the festival
Additional artists from
Israel and the world include the Greek-Brazilian duo Angela Lamprianidou and Irineu Marcovecchio, Tal Alperstein,
Michal Schreiber, Nitzan Bernstein, Lior Kriel, Yoanna Blikman and Dan Robert
Lahiani.
Surprise Performance:
As part of the performance program, every
evening one performance piece will be presented in a surprising location in the
neighborhood. The number of participants is limited and the exact location will
be transferred to pre-registered users only! You can register at the information
center during the festival days from 19:00.
Exhibitions in Musrara galleries - artists and
curators from Israel and the world
The three galleries of Musrara will open new
exhibitions that will deal with the issue of uncertainty from different points
of view.
The New Gallery (9 HaAyin Chet
Street), invited the Italian curator Vanina Saracino to present in the Fragmented
Vision exhibition four artists from the world: the Israeli-French artist
Lior Gal, who combines realistic photographs into fantasy, the two Italian
artists Sara Tirelli and Elena Mazzi will present video performance filmed in
the crater of Athena volcano, and the artist Saverio Cantoni will present an
interactive performance in collaboration with the audience that following a
visit to Mars was specially created for the festival.
The Derfler Gallery (9 HaAyin Chet
Street) will present the exhibition Gray Matter, curated by Ayelet
Hashahar Cohen and featuring the artists Keren Zalts, Shahar Afek, Zohar
Elazar, and guest - Gal Ben Arosh. This exhibition seeks to unravel the
familiar dynamics between curators and artists based on cooperation, control
and organization, to examine them, and to rebuild them on the basis of
principles of uncertainty when four artists and a curator decide to try to act
differently from what is known and unknown, without guaranties.
The social gallery (22 Shivtei Israel
Street), will display the exhibition P=0.5, curated by Vera Korman and featuring
the artists Eleanor Salomon, Karam Natour, Liat Segal, Yael Meiry, Adar
Goldfarb, Yonatan Ben-Simhon, Inga Fonar Cocos and Renee Van Trier. The name of the
exhibition, P = 0.5, is a term loaned from the world of probability, which
represents the greatest probability of uncertainty. The exhibition brings
together spaces of uncertainty in a world of infinite clouds of information.
"Hackathon" -
programming and art marathon conducted by the New Media Department
A two-day special
marathon that will gather 20 artists from different fields: art, code,
hardware, music, content and movement. The participants will be divided into
guided work and create collaborative innovative artistic-technological
projects, which will be presented at the festival closing event. The hackathon
is led by the Department of New Media Studies in Musrara and the “Turing Girls”
Group (Dganit Elyakim, Bat Dezabeli and Eran Hadas).
Musraropera - a
radio opera throughout the neighborhood
A collaborative radio-based opera based on the
voices recorded in the neighborhood, created by artists Milena
Kipfmüller and Klaus Janek (Sounding Situations) in their residency. With their mediation, the
Musrara neighborhood transforms to evocative acoustic images. The piece will migreate
throughout the neighborhood during the festival and will broadcast through a
radio system.
Works by students
from various departments in Musrara
The Department of New Media will present
virtual reality works. Students of the Photography Department in cooperation
with artists will exhibit large-scale photograms throughout the neighborhood as
well as in a photography exhibition. The new music department will be
integrated into the musical programs in the Karnaf Hall and on the main stage
with various ensembles, including “Modern Ensemble”, the Musrara Choir and
other performances.
Symposium and Panel:
"Art and Technology in an Age of Uncertainty" - with the
participation of artists and curators from Israel and the world
Wednesday, May 30 at 17:00, lecture hall,
Musrara Campus, 22 Shivtei Yisrael St.
Featuring: Bjørn Melhus
(Germany), Saverio
Cantoni (Italy), Vanina Saracino
(Italy), Agnieszka Szablikowska (Poland), Lior Gal (France / Israel) and others.
AFTERSHOCK - Lectures and discourse at the end of the festival: the
unknown in the scientific, cultural and mental spheres
Thursday, May 31 at
18:00, lecture hall, Musrara Campus, 22 Shivtei Yisrael St.
A meeting with
experts in different fields of knowledge to discuss the unknown in various
aspects of human culture. Among the participants: Prof. Ron Folman, Department
of Physics at Ben-Gurion University: What quantum theory says about freedom of
choice; Boaz Nehemia, meteorologist, and founder and webmaster of the
"Yerushamayim" site and application: uncertainty in the weather;
Prof. Amotz Agnon, Institute for Earth Studies at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem: Earthquakes and Uncertainty; Lilach Doron-Anati, clinical
psychologist and a colleague at the Tel Aviv Institute for Contemporary
Psychoanalysis: on the ability to endure uncertainty and anxiety. Additional
content will be updated later.
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