The web site contains selections from exhibits constructed between 1996 and 2004.
   The focus is on three exhibits: Sound and Space at Zagreb’s Contemporary Art Museum during 1999; Even the Blood Must Sleep at HaMumche in Tel Aviv during 2000; and Orient Occident at Forum in Stockholm during 2000.
   The exhibits consist of seven sound installations, each done in collaboration with the composer Dror Feiler and accompanied by a text of its own.
   The sound installations are entitled Interference, Five times as often, Tranquillizer, What is life in Life?, Nani, Nani, Lux and Amygdala.

 

The Zagreb and Tel Aviv exhibits cast a wide net. Croatia, which was so recently and violently severed from Yugoslavia – an ethno-religious mosaic and a nebulous borderland throughout history.
   Israel and Palestine – the ever-rocking cradle, whose occupants never seem to sleep, the wellspring of three Western religions.
   The video Interference was recorded in a Palestinian village near Jerusalem and in a Tel Aviv home six months before the outbreak of the El-Aqsa Intifada in September 2000.
   Events since that time have rendered the exhibit even more poignant and harrowing.

 

Materials

The exhibits were constructed on site, almost exclusively from local materials. Recorded lullabies from nearby regions were translated and made into sound installations.
   I have long been enamored of foam plastic. I frequently came across mattresses in an advanced state of decay – soggy brown, bloated and porous – at Israeli junk heaps. Somewhere in the back of my mind is the first masquerade costume I ever wore – a yellow and green cowslip gown that my mother had clipped together. I still remember the way it felt against my skin – brittle, electric, soft and compliant all at one time.
   I found the motley-colored, second-hand medications neatly lined up among a potpourri of knickknacks and household items at the Russian Market in the Israeli town of Netanya.

 

Colony

Colonies, anthills, frenzied gatherings. Political undertones. Sensuous, organic congregations radiating out like magnetic fields.
   Colony is constructed from rolls of felt. The minimalist domocile of exile and flight, extending along rugged floors like a coral reef – a new branch of anthropology? Small felt scrolls tell the story.
   Ideas spring to life from a tangled web of associations, from the tension among the intersecting realms of media, material, culture and ethnicity. Like a flash of light across an unforseen landscape.