If you venture into the desert of Wackelkontakt, you’ll find yourself in an endless loop of improvement and deterioration. The multi-faceted workshop-experiment-performance presented by Wackelkontakt at Autumn Cult 2021 returns to the space where it was born. After three years of shape-and-medium-shifting, the members of the audiovisual trio once again turn their thoughtful gaze towards […]
Ofer Laufer is an artist and craftsman who builds structures, objects, and machines. The artifacts he produces with his own hands, carry a very personal, technical, and poetic signature. He often places his sculptures in public spaces, creating interventions that respond to and influence the environment. Additionally, he works as a lighting and set designer, […]
Tamar Harpaz’s installations function as encrypted and shattered mysteries, scenes throughout which clues are scattered. They require the viewer’s presence and gaze, as a forensic investigator collecting findings that can be revealed in a slight shift of perspective or body movement. Her enigmas are constructed from everyday objects embedded within a web of optical and […]
First and foremost, Ana Wild is an artist of words. She is interested in the connections between language and meaning, and tells stories from the forgotten past and the unknown future. Her works explore various forms of learning and knowledge, appearing as text, object, or event. They offer mythologies that wander in peculiar ways to […]
In his observations of the cosmic theater at the beginning of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei witnessed three moons floating near the planet Jupiter. It was only later that a fourth moon, which was previously hidden, appeared. Through the lens of his refined telescope, he observed the movements of these moons as they disappeared and […]
During the days when emergency instructions left our theatre closed, we looked for ways to utilize our capabilities. Thus, was born a small factory for high-quality beautiful wooden toys, manufactured by Hazira’s artist community and theatre staff AKA “Tech Poetry”. The toys are all made from recycled theatre sets. They will be sent to children […]
Concert no. 07 in the Deluziot series comes in an international metal edition, with two heavy sets of varying speeds: ATONIA After a debut performance at Roadburn – one of Europe’s prominent heavy music festivals – the collaboration of vocalist Tomer Damsky with the Belgian band Wyatt E lands in Jerusalem. With music inspired by […]
The solo exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Niv Gafni was specifically created for Hazira’s main theatre hall. It consists of two groups of kinetic sculptures that tell a wondrous story about the connection between humans and the world around them. Under the hall’s ceiling, which transforms into infinite skies with the help of unique lighting, a […]
Exploring the human consciousness under the influence of psychoactive substances,Henri Michaux describes the “schizophrenic table” as a table made of infinite additions, excessively dense, brimming over and interminable. Over time it looks like a monstrous clump of wood rather than a table. The top surface of the table, supposedly its useful part, is gradually disappearing; […]
“Last Action Hero” is a time based, site specific installation conceived for Hazira’s stage. Set in a twilight between exhibition and performance, the work proposes a wandering experience through the stage as the theater’s operating systems are taken over. The work was created following an extensive research into the Phantasmagoria shows of the 18th-19th century. […]
