10,000 LUX

A short film in the making. Showcasing a narrative of a few chosen worldly case studies of what could be considered as an office catastrophe, in which brings to the front stage two words for re-examination: EXIT and CRISIS.
The office space has turned into a forensic stage, where extraction of archaeological knowledge from the ruins of neoliberal grounds in times of natural and human disasters could be told perhaps otherwise. In light of growing vacant office spaces, this project is based on a larger research paper that re-question a reclaim for the publicness and re-use of closed gated corporate real estates.

IBM Headquarters, Amsterdam, 6th floor, ‘Trust The Building’ 

A performative event, video and sound installation.
“Can a building be trusted? Which protocols and procedures that are carried out in a building make it trustworthy- or not? Through an intricate mesh of subtle interventions, The Group has turned a vast, half-furnished vacant office floor of a corporate headquarters into a living situation that lays bare the support infrastructure of the modern worker in their global connectedness. By unfolding acts of office archeology and acupuncture in an occupied building, daily office routines of security checks, elevator chatter, coffee corner, whiteboard brainstorm and document shredder are reframed as a sacred passage towards neoliberal enlightenment of office life.”

Photogrphy: Bobbie Wagenaar

Why is it So Dry

A short film in the making, that tells a story of a space within a building, left as the only standing living entity in the gentrified neighborhood. Its real history as a factory revives its use once again as a future factory for the production of natural Latex.
It’s an eternal steamy hot and dry set as part of a climate that is bound to be part of our own consequential destiny, with its bare, loose technological ends.
When the home turns into a wild territory of a ‘wandering self’, where labor and leisure are sinking in one pot of melancholy and desire. Where the human ruins and archaeology of the space kept as an object of desire that is always absent.

gym_Arad

gym, Contemporary Art Center, 2017
Avishur Brutalist garden research project, Arad.

The residency’s research took part in the exploration of possible futures and potentials of Arad’s Brutalist concrete gardens.

Built in the 70’s by Arc. Zvi Dekel, the brutalist monuments were in a state of decay at the center of a residential project in Arad city, turning them into transparent, unwanted voids. Invited into the city in a time of political turbulence, gym’s action was setting a series of performative and material experiments on site, and converting the ACAC gallery into a think&do workspace open for the public, where their ongoing participatory research was presented, and suggested a space for re-imagining the mythology and the possible futures of the brutalist gardens. 

gym_Lod

A project that never managed to finalize itself and be presented as planned in May 2021 in the city of Lod, due to a war that broke that very week, involving Gaza and clashes between civilians within cities such as Lod.

This project was done alongside ‘gym’ group and Dr. Tawfiq Da’adli, historian and archaeologist born in Lod, who dedicated his active research to the tension between the layers of debris that lie beneath the city, built up throughout history, and now compressed under the weight of new concrete developments presented as part of the “city’s urban renewals”.

It was very much based on re-layering archives materials from Dr. Da’adli own archeological excavation revealing the city’s social structure at the end of the Ottoman Period. but also from his living memory from the city and its rituals and rich heritage wiped out from current archives.

The chosen radius of intervention was extracted from an aerial mapping analysis taken in 1936, which captures a moment in time in the city’s long life, and at that point, as Palestine under the British mandate.

Outdoor Installation, metal wireframes as ‘Play-Grounds’, tip of rooftops of the old city of Lod, part of Zumu Exhibition – ‘Museum on the move’, Lod, 2021