VIDEO + WALL INSTALLATION :


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September 11, 2009 @ arttransponder, Berlin

Open : September 11 – October 9, 2009/ Th 12-5 pm, Fr/Sa 2-7 pm - Brunnenstraße 151, 10115 Berlin


Created by: Sharon Paz
Video Paricipant: Gabriel Guler, Benjamin Jegendurf, Yaara Nirel, Nadar Rosano, Reut Weinberg
Music : Yuval Mesner
Installation assistent: Karl-Heinz Stenz
Cataloge design: Sharon Paz
Cataloge text: D–rte IlsabČ Dennemann
Translation: Phil Cooksey

Special Thanks : Bikorey Haitim, Keshev Or, arttransponder team, Sergio Adelshtein,
Yuval Goldshtein, Noam Carmeli, Inbal Aloni, Philip Smith, Iris Erez, Amnon Liberman, Dalia Paz.

This project made possible by the support of arttransponder e.V., Berlin, Germany. The video was produced with the assistance of the Fund for Video-Art and Experimental Cinema, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv with the support of the Israeli Film Council. Supported by the National Lottery Council For The Arts.

The project combines video and wall installations, dealing with the human needs to destroy and fight. In the centre of the wall installation: a panoramic view made up of flat images, silhouettes of generic people and a landscape, taken out of their historical context, placed in layered but flat surroundings, similar to the graphic elements of computer games.

The video is a mixture of diverse realities and cyberspace; the flat icons are created inside a flat but layered landscape. I work with common collective images, a mixture of everyday news and historical image data found online. In both parts of the project, in the video and in the installation, the figures are shadows of a violent action.

I am interested in the moment before a fight begins, the time for exercising, building up and imitating an imaginary battle scenario, the simulation of a war that might happen. Pretending to be injured and rescued, practicing in hiding and attacking, watching, building shelters.

Sharon Paz 2009


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