The Excessive production crew, also known as WACKELKONTAKT, invite friends and collaborators to be born together from a bottleneck of materials that have been cooking in the last four years and finally come out in a double identity, as an album and a movie. 21:00Premiere screening of Wackelkontakt’s new film – Change The Process (35 […]
On the closing night of Autumn Cult 2019 (The Gathering), we hosted Winter Family with their performance Hebron H2 and a concert by the family ensemble. At that time, nobody knew that a pandemic was on the horizon, but the concept of lockdown is not new; it runs deep within us. With this poetic darkness, […]
Each year, it is our custom to turn our gaze to the night sky and discover prophecies, images, and reflections for the impending Autumn Cult. The heavens are adorned with wondrous expressions of creative processes: worlds obliterated in violent explosions, birthing new generations of materials in the cosmos; clouds where star nurseries flourish; and, of […]
In October 2023, Tamy Ben-Tor uploaded her video work Dear Hamas to her private Instagram account. Within minutes, she received death threats and antisemitic slurs. She was fired from her teaching position in video performance at Hunter College in New York. What might have once sparked a discussion, or even a heated debate, about an […]
White Time is a performative sound installation where artist Eitan Haviv employs long loops of magnetic tape—sourced, extracted, and recycled from audio cassettes. The tape, which originally moves within the cassette, is drawn out and set into motion on panels using a system of bearings. The tape is reconfigured into enchanted objects that can be […]
Nimrod Alexander Gershoni returns to the Autumn Cult with a new premiere. Following the endless plunge of his work A-Hole (Night to Forget, Autumn Cult 2022), Gershoni positions himself in a near-future dystopia, continuing his exploration of the human condition, as he is stuck in a single action that stretches infinitely. The suspension of time […]
Winter Family is Ruth Rosenthal and Xavier Klaine. They met in Jaffa in 2004, and since then have lived mostly in Paris with their daughter, Saralai, who has been a significant part of their performances since 2016. Winter Family has developed a rugged, rich, and minimalist world that plays with codes and conventions. Initially, they […]
A hybrid wooden structure, between a prayer chapel and a barn or a makeshift cowshed, is the backdrop for a journey along personal stories, like a haunted movement between an inner world and concrete reality. In Tamar Ooserhof’s new work, the multifaceted structure is simultaneously a theater stage, a cinema, and a public hall, serving […]
The second in a series of participatory events centered on personal and collective introspection, led by the urban shaman and coacher I.G. – the alter ego of artist Itzik Giuli. In a four-chapter act that consists of sound work, guided meditation, storytelling, and video installation, Giuli adopts the fictional figure of I.G. and delves into […]
In a diorama of an abstract desert, a young girl is speaking her mother tongue – Hebrew. Her words sound like music, as she describes the place she calls home: it’s hot there, and full of history. In Aleph, artist Ana Wild offers the learning of a new language to her audience. Starting with simple […]
