Selected works:
Desert Dead
Bucketful of Angel
Ahhh Back to Earth
Burnt-doors/safehouse?
Nein of November
Mud Fight!!
Apple street
TWIN HEATS
Tfu Tfu Tfu
Dreams of Shifu
Nahar
Divers
CV
Contact
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Performance view
Ofir & Gilad Ashery, in collaboration with Naama Doron Angel and participation of Jonathan Reisner
Performed at The Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo
Curated by Shahar Mizrahi
Duration : 150 minutes (x3 nights in a row)
excerpt video documentation
Desert Dead presents a three-day performative installation in which the artists rehearse burial rituals in mud. Three figures operate within the space: the burier, the buried, and the worker, rotating roles at the end of each cycle. The rituals unfold in an environment that includes a workstation, a burial station, a coffee station, and a cluster of mud igloos built using a military technique for constructing shelters. Sandbags taken from a nearby construction site are piled in one corner, while a coffee urn bubbles in another. They transform into each other in a passage between states of matter, functioning as a system that generates neither more nor less, but only shifts from one condition to another.
A thermal camera hovers like a bird of prey, transmitting simultaneously into the space. The thermal image reveals traces of heat and imprints of touch that humans leave and encounter in their surroundings. A technology whose origins lie in military enemy-detection systems is repurposed here as a map that gives the work its organizing principles
--Text by Shahar Mizrahi--
Photos by : Tomer Fruchter