The work will observe history, not as an objective discipline rather than the subjective personal perception of history. Examining history perception not as a chronological record or narrative description of past events but as a collection of memories over time, creating a nonlinear timeline. This subjective timeline will combine reality and fiction, dream and imagination. I wish to create an experience of time collapsing, connecting different points in history into one space and time.

The piece will be based on a fictional family made of four characters from different time periods that live in the same house. A father, a mother, a son and a daughter, each one carry his own historical baggage. The fifth character will be an archeologist that comes into the family asking to dig under the cupboard. Because of the family historical dynamic this request reflects different meaning to each character. They all live together in the space, dealing with the notion of home, along subjects of ownership, territory, borders, longing and belonging.

In the center of the stage stands a cube, a space that simulates an interior of an apartment. The cube walls are partly open to the audience to see inside. The design will be constructed from minimal furniture and objects. The video projections on each facade will focus on a singular historical time frame and character, showing the relevant historical information. The video will function as a mirror of the area, locating the apartment in historical context.

The main objective of the installation is to give the viewer a multiple viewing points into the same space. The audience will travel around the cube seeing four different angles of the story. Each side will be dominant by one of the family members, showing mainly his or her point of view about what is happening in the house, through the video. I would like to continue the investigation of my previous work “HOW LONG” and to create a three-dimensional experience with multiple possibilities to see the same action, to increase pluralism and the awareness of the other.

The performance will present a psycho-political triangle between Palestinians, Israelis and Germans. The father was born in Germany, came to Israel after the war, his present is 1967. The daughter was born in Israel, her present is now, 2007. The mother was born in Akko, her present is 1948. The son was born in Palestine his present is 1988. The archeologist was born in Germany and function also as a psychologist that tries to understand the family dynamics. Their conflicts are presented in the language; each character will speak their language but still communicates with the others.

“Be-longing” installation will travel through layers of time, detecting patterns of history, bringing together the past and the present into a discourse. The audience will make a journey with the characters unfolding the connections between those layers, between the conflicts of longing and belonging and the similarities between their different realities. We all live with the history, with stories that were told; with objects that once belonged to someone else that we have never met.