Author: Merav Tzur
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Contemporary Sync (2016-18)
Contemporary Sync stages synchronized actions using personal gadgets like cell phones in public spaces. It looks at the spectrum of new gestures that entered our daily repertoire of body movements in the past decade because of the use of those gadgets. This is a choreography of new forms of social synchronized body gestures of contemporary
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Reinventing the Past (2016)
During a series of workshops at Art Cube Artists’ Studios in Jerusalem participants imagined different histories to Israel by making fictitious archaeological artifacts from recycled materials.
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Story & History (2016)
The power of archaeology in nationalist struggles springs from the fiction that archaeology is an objective science and from the obfuscation of the political endeavor. Nationalists use archaeology both to prove their myths dispassionately and to reveal and reconstruct an “authentic” objectified heritage.” – Archeology as a Political Action Randall H. McGuire, University of California
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OLD Agreement Between Parents and an Unborn Child (2015)
Contributor: Elizabeth Letcher. [pdf width=”100%” height=”1200px”]https://meravtzur.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Birth_Terms_and_Conditions_TNY_Shouts.pdf[/pdf]
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Reenactments of Reenactments of a Happy Woman in Relationship– the Alternative Stock Photo Series, (2015-16)
Using the vast archive of photographic imagery available online, this project addresses the constructs of identity and image. Searching “happy woman in relationship” on Google Image, I find common themes in the photographic archive and then reenact the reenactments of the happy couples in the images. I then manipulate them with Photoshop to create compositions
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JoyAbound® (2015)
JoyAbound® is a fictitious company that provides advice to women about how to lead a happier life. This project addresses the constructs of identity as articulated through Internet advertising, imagery, and text. JoyAbound® is constructed as a trade show booth within the gallery. The main section of the performance has a reception desk, attended by
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Reenactments of Reenactments of a Happy Woman– the Alternative Stock Photo Series (2015)
Using the vast archive of photographic imagery available online, this project addresses the constructs of identity and image. Searching “happy woman” on Google Image, I find common themes in the photographic archive and then reenact the reenactments of the happy women in the images. I then manipulate them with Photoshop to create compositions that respond
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Wichita Field Research Station (2015)
Using a digital microscope, gallery visitors investigate various materials in Petri dishes and draw and write their observations in the notebook provided. Field station notebook