Public Movement: National Collection
National Collection, a museum exhibition, is realized in its entirety as a durational performance and is the first of its kind in Israel. The exhibition will be held over six weeks in various spaces of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and is performed by eleven members of Public Movement.
Public Movement regards the Museum as an arena where civic behavior in public space is molded according to the ideals of a democratic society. National Collection examines the Museum as a site and set of activities through which national and cultural identity are defined. The Declaration of the State of Israel took place in 1948, in the original location of the Tel Aviv Museum, during an historical event in which art and politics were as one. National Collection opens almost a decade after Public Movement's inaugural performative act: the laying a wreath of white flowers on the steps of Independence Hall. The exhibition temporarily returns the Independence Hall to the "Hall of Art" to underscore a complex relationship, and interdependency, between the State and its cultural institutions.
Drawing on the historical and contemporary contexts embodied by the Museum鈥檚 architecture, collections, gathering spaces, and codes of conduct, Public Movement activates political and national mechanisms by engaging the participant in a series of actions and new choreographies. In this light, the Museum collection is not assessed for the material value of the artworks, but as a visual body through which society defines itself. Public Movement confronts the alleged neutrality of the museum, and its function as a site of peaceful respite amidst conflict, to activate its role within the sphere of international politics.
To participate in the exhibition, the audience meets in the main building and then moves through the Museum鈥檚 galleries, as well as spaces that are usually closed to the public, in groups of up to 25 people. From here, Public Movement members lead each group through a site-specific performance that includes a series of activities: ceremonies, short speeches, rituals and processions through the Museum鈥攖he choreography of which is based on two years of ongoing research and work in the Museum.
National Collection, a museum exhibition, is realized in its entirety as a durational performance and is the first of its kind in Israel. The exhibition will be held over six weeks in various spaces of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and is performed by eleven members of Public Movement.
Public Movement regards the Museum as an arena where civic behavior in public space is molded according to the ideals of a democratic society. National Collection examines the Museum as a site and set of activities through which national and cultural identity are defined. The Declaration of the State of Israel took place in 1948, in the original location of the Tel Aviv Museum, during an historical event in which art and politics were as one. National Collection opens almost a decade after Public Movement's inaugural performative act: the laying a wreath of white flowers on the steps of Independence Hall. The exhibition temporarily returns the Independence Hall to the "Hall of Art" to underscore a complex relationship, and interdependency, between the State and its cultural institutions.
Drawing on the historical and contemporary contexts embodied by the Museum鈥檚 architecture, collections, gathering spaces, and codes of conduct, Public Movement activates political and national mechanisms by engaging the participant in a series of actions and new choreographies. In this light, the Museum collection is not assessed for the material value of the artworks, but as a visual body through which society defines itself. Public Movement confronts the alleged neutrality of the museum, and its function as a site of peaceful respite amidst conflict, to activate its role within the sphere of international politics.
To participate in the exhibition, the audience meets in the main building and then moves through the Museum鈥檚 galleries, as well as spaces that are usually closed to the public, in groups of up to 25 people. From here, Public Movement members lead each group through a site-specific performance that includes a series of activities: ceremonies, short speeches, rituals and processions through the Museum鈥攖he choreography of which is based on two years of ongoing research and work in the Museum.
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