Artist’s statement

I am an Israeli performance artist whose artistic journey started in 1997 as a member of the British international collaborative performance art group “The people Show’. Since then I have been passionately devising collaborative & solo works, mainly in the field of participatory & site-specificity art. 

As a Co-Artistic Director, together with artist Anton Mirto, of A2Company, we presented performance-based work in London (ICA, The Royal Opera House Studio, The Place, BAC Theatre) & Europe (Paris, Vienna, Barcelona, Dortmund. Ljubljana, Tuscany) & in Israel. 
Through constructing intimate, interactive situations, I interrogate & examine the existential & psychological human experience in modern society & the way we relate to one another & our surroundings. 

Steered by my personal experience, the works explore universal tabus: intimacy, powerlessness, isolation, loneliness, relationships, fears, and dreams; Though the working method has constantly been developing & evolving with each piece, the starting point is always the same: time, space, people - specific. And the content is always: life - the here and now, to deepen awareness as a motivator for social change. 
The work involves integration across art forms (live art, participation, audio guiding), for which I find new emotive vocabularies & relationships between the performers & the spectators while retaining the realness & randomness of a live performance event. 
Being interested in the hidden & secretive aspects of our psychological beings, enthused to reveal the layers that exist under the social masks, I search for moments of empathy and emotional identification between strangers. 

Therefore, I create platforms of intimacy, encouraging a non-judgmental way of seeing & listening to one another in a shared, safe environment, where each individual can express their fears & hopes.

In some performances I engage the audience & create interaction between them, sometimes with the involvement of other performers, sometimes local people with no artistic experience are included, blurring boundaries between life & art, providing them with a platform of self-expression, exposing the sublime within the mundane. 

Through playful open questioning exchanges & guidance, I encourage the audience to take responsibility for their choices, to look inward & reflect on places where we are blind, silent, or ignored; Thus, the practice is driven by the prospect of meeting one another & re-meeting ourselves.