Nir Evron & Omer Krieger "Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres"
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:00
Nir Evron & Omer Krieger "Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres"
The video Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (2014) was shot in Kibbutz Be'eri, a collective community in the south of Israel, founded in 1946 near the Gaza strip. Evron and Krieger invited a group of kibbutz members to recite the 26 verses of an opaque hebrew poem written by Kibbutz Poet Anadad Eldan (b. 1924). Aerial shots of the region are interwoven into the reading, showing sites of assembly, stages of collective expression, public sculpture and architecture in the kibbutz, a 20th century avant-garde phenomenon and a radical social experiment situated today on the border of Israel and the Hamas-governed Gaza strip, one of the most charged geopolitical environments in the world. This is the first joint work of Nir Evron and Omer Krieger, which combines cinematic and performative sensibilities, proposing political and aesthetic questions situated in human body and public spaces.