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A Wedding in Times of Plague
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Runaway Circus ~ Jerusalem Design Week, 2021
Over 160 participating artists and designers!
July 1-8 at Hansen House, Jerusalem
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Total Request Live, 30 Years Later
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Elements
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17.9-13.11.2021
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Being There – Oltre il giardino | Claudia Losi
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ZER0|1NE Festival
28-29.12.2021
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Kudüs-i Sherif: a view at Jerusalem from Istanbul
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Framed Expanse - Ezra Orion
Closing - April 2nd, 2022
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Primavera 2022
April 7th-8th, 2022
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Play- Family Festival 2022
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Jerusalem Design Week 2022 | FOR NOW
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What's More, Yellow or an Elephant?
29.7-9.7.2022
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Resting Bitch | Sharon Balaban
Curators: Sala-Manca
Mamuta Art and Research Center and Hansen House
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The Sad Locust Hunters | Yifeat Ziv
4.11.2022 - 26.12.2022
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Acoustic Signature
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In Print Art Book Fair 2023
Thursday, January 12, 15:00-23:00
Friday, January 13, 10:00-14:30
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פרימוורה #10 יריד המעצבים של בית הנסן
23-23.3.2023
Free Entrance
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CQ
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Total Care
Shir Senior and Keren Kuenberg
21.4 - 2.6.23
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Memories of Others: Irit Batsry
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Facing Reality
20.7.23-28.7.23
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Drama Storytelling - Media Conference- DIGITAL // TV // AI
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Records: Ayala Shamir
Closing 7/10/2023
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The Voyage to Nowhere
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Up Top: Manofim Festival X Hansen House
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The Mixer: Musical Performance Series
Thursday, 26.10.2023
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The 8th Jerusalem Art Conference
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Exhibition: The Private Press in the Small Room
Mamuta Art and Research Center
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Smart Home in a Dumb Body
Closing: 17 February 2024
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Print Shop X Wrapping Memory
"Wrapping Memory"
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Open Call for Designers - Primavera Fair
Application Deadline: 01.03.2024
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The Historical Exhibition
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Guided tour: from a leprous house to a creator's house Advance reservation
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Open Call - Jerusalem Design Week 2024
Since time immemorial, stones – and especially the stones of Jerusalem – have always silently absorbed the stories told about them. From the Foundation Stone to the stones of the Western Wall – the stones of Jerusalem were always larger than their material dimensions suffused with longings and surrounded by stories and ceremonies. The stone floor under your feet once served as a safe support for patient beds, and later for workers and visitors. It was gradually smoothed over by decades of continuous use, remaining strong in the face of the city’s vicissitudes. At present, it continues to support a great number of activities. The space is filled with machines charged of cleaning the floor. Each of them was especially designed for the stones it strokes, and tailored to caressing it continuously.
The repetitive, meticulous actions performed by groups of metallic “stick insects” are reminiscent of swarming creatures – or perhaps of a cutting-edge robotic choreography. The function is simple: touching the stones, cleaning them, caring for them.
The machines prevent dirt from accumulating, while vigorously polishing the stone floor. With every layer that is removed, the site’s complex layers of history dissipate as well.
If we do not stop cleaning, things will never get dirty. If we keep cleaning forever, what will happen to the dust? Will the floor stones wear down to the point of disappearing, or will the machines fall apart before completing their mission? Cleaning dominates every area of our life. Yet what do we lose when we scrub so vigorously? What happens when one caresses too hard?
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This work was created as a sequel to “Stroking Time,” exhibited at Jerusalem Design Week 2022, as part of an ongoing research project that intimately observes and responds the stones and their trajectory in regional Jerusalem.