HaMaabada Theater, Jerusalem
Artists: Josef Sprinzak, Ilan Green, Pharesia Group, Adi Kaplan and Shahar Karmel, Maya Levi, Eran Sachs, Adva Drori, Shaul Zemach
Curated by sala-manca together with Ofira Henig
The Golem project is the result of a long research and working process, which involved artists from the fields of the fine arts and the performing arts. The theme of The Golem afforded us the possibility to work on one of the most important issues in philosophy, folklore, Jewish mysticism, the arts, literature, and cinema, while also serving as a metaphor for evolving technology. It seems to us that by returning to the subject fro a contemporary viewpoint creates the possibility to examine different interpretations of The Golem. The long period of preparation for the project commenced with a seminar of two days in which artists from a wide spectrum of the arts met with researches from differentfields.After this seminar the artists were invited to send us their proposals for works that deal with the subject of The Golem and who reflect the working process and development that we sought out. The proposals we chose represent unique forms of expression.
The Lab, as a venue for the arts, which combines new media, is the fitting place and space for the production of this project, both from the point of v
iew of our desire to deal the issue of the development of technology, the role of “space” in the arts and based on the working process of The Lab as a “Laboratory” for the arts – one that attempts to illuminate different aspects of a subject without the desire to reach conclusive results.During the course of the past year, we have held lectures and exchanges between the artists and have accompanied the different projects. The Golem project serves as a crossroads in time and space, which opens the working process to the general public, through our desire to expose the public to the artist’s works and to maintain an open dialogue with it. . [to the program] / @ TheLab, Jerusalem, 29.10-4.11.2007