Syllabus 1
5 Classes
June 2014
Ha'Midrasha Gallery
מעבדת מחקר לשיעור
120 Participants
Our objective at Syllabus is to connect live art, performance art, to education and learning, and to highlight the human encounter as the base and essence of the performance and class.
סSyllabus” is a series of classes that are open to the public, by advanced registration.The classes are taught by stage and performance artists that approach each lesson as a live event. During the classes, the role of the teacher is enacted as an elastic performance that stretches familiar classroom structures. In an era where most learning takes place outside of formal frameworks, Five Experimental Classes seek to establish a sense of inspiration and imagination through our collective presence in one room. The public is invited to learn with knowledgeable and professional artists in the fields of music, dance, theatre, film, and visual art.
סSyllabus is an experimental space for developing a class format. We try to challenge the boundaries of the class as we know it and turn it into an experience of a live artistic event, which takes place at the seam line between class and performance. The starting point of the class is the close human encounter between the performer and the spectators, which does not necessarily happen in a formal class where the status and part of each participant is clear, predetermined and unquestionable.Enhancing the encounter between the artist and the spectators to include an instructional element as well opens a possibility of a new and intriguing experience for both sides, which turns the performance/class into a complete work of art. In this direct encounter, the artist is invited to experiment with different practices of his or her work – of the performance as a class, inventing a fictional workshop, collaborating with the audience, etc.; the public is invited to take part in or look at art in a new way, as never before.
Samantha Adler de Oliveira and Chen Zarfati, Workart
The Classes
Glass, Air, Flesh, Blood, Tzion Avraham Hazan
I am sometimes shocked at the notion of having spent more than fifteen years of my life in school classes. During those years, I sat in sixteen thousand courses at the least; I was familiar with over a thousand classrooms, in eight different schools, in seven different towns and in two countries. In none of the classes did we discuss the material formula which constructs any classroom: glass, air, flesh and blood.
In the frame of “Syllabus”, I would give a class relating to this formula. In this course I think of a classroom as a sort of cage or aquarium, containing the bodies of its students. There will be enough oxygen in the room. The majority of the course would be dedicated to experimentation with sensory sculpting, i.e. sculpting forms according to the physical sensation in the flesh. The four materials – glass, air, flesh and blood – are the raw materials used for the work. It won’t hurt.
Do touch my heart, Michal Unger
Yossi the psychologist
says all the time
i think
That with you
The best
Would be
To wait
For a miricle
The class will start at 19:00 sharp upon ordering
pizza and will conclude with the arrival of the
delivery.
WORKART – Samantha Adler de Oliveira and Chen Zarfati.
Curator: Karni Barzilay
Empowerment training for artists; an encounter of artistic experimentation with the body.
A guided physical training aimed at releasing tensions and dealing with challenges involved in creating. During this meeting, physical and mental abilities will be improved, providing the participants with useful tools. We will work together on strengthening and improving artistic fitness, highlighting aspects of creativity, inspiration and success.
Project Invitation
WIN WIN WIN – a gambling class Maayan Miriam Mozess and Laura Kirschenbaum
We invite you to a soccer game on 19 Hayarkon St. to bet on the winning team.
Following registration you will receive an email with information on the competing teams.
While collecting the bets, you may enjoy Bloody Mary and appetizers; minimum betting sum is 20 Shekels.
Rock Bottom, Einat Amir
Einat Amir’s class will include performative scenarios, challenging the participants to review their own boundaries and to think about the relation between obeying and freedom of creation.
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