Cite as: Christoph Holzhey, Welcome to the exhibition Orit Siman-Tov, ‘spaces. transformations’, part of the ici library event Digital/Analog, ICI Berlin, 2 December 2009, video recording, mp4, 03:49 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e091202_1>
2 Dec 2009

Welcome

By Christoph Holzhey

Video in English

Format: mp4
Length: 00:03:49
First published on: https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/spaces-transformations/
Rights: © ICI Berlin

Part of the Exhibition

spaces. transformations / Orit Siman-Tov

The exhibition explores public life in Israel as seen through archaeological sites and recreational spaces, examining ways in which visitors make use of these. Siman-Tov’s photographs of excavation sites, public parks, pools, sports arenas, and historical places draw our attention to those features of the public sites that remain unnamed and that exceed their official purpose. They bring into view ‘Israeli spaces’ that belong neither solely to high, symbolic culture nor entirely to the private or individual domain, but rather bear the marks of both. Siman-Tov discloses the temporal, historical layering of these locations while simultaneously parsing for the viewer the complex religious, social, and political make-up of contemporary Israeli public space.

Born in 1971, Orit Siman-Tov graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, in 1997 and was awarded the Ministry of Education’s Young Artists Prize 1998. Since then, she has worked and exhibited in Israel, Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Her work focuses on spatial and social archaeologies of the everyday. It includes studies of cities such as Berlin and Chicago, but most comprehensively chronicles public life in Israel. Here, Siman-Tov’s photography articulates symbolic and historical aspects of Israeli culture with contemporary social, cultural, and economic tensions.

Venue

ICI Berlin
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Organized by

Corinna Haas
Claudia Peppel

Part of the ICI Library Event

Digital/Analog: Spaces.Transformations / Orit Siman-Tov

Literatur und Informationen wandern aus den Lesesälen der Bibliotheken immer mehr in den digitalen Raum ab. Doch gerade die wachsende Unabhängigkeit von physischen Leseorten führt zu einer Renaissance der Bibliothek als Ort und öffentlicher Raum – wie imposante neue Bibliotheksbauten und ihr Publikum weltweit belegen. So eröffnet das Begriffspaar digital/analog ein weites Spannungsfeld, in dem sich Bibliotheken heute positionieren. Anlässlich des zweijährigen Bestehens der ICI Library greifen wir dieses Thema mit einer Lesung auf.

Gleichzeitig eröffnen wir in Anwesenheit der Künstlerin Orit Siman-Tov die Ausstellung: spaces.transformations.

Programm

19.00: Begrüßung durch Christoph Holzhey, Direktor des  ICI Berlin 
und Corinna Haas, wissenschaftliche Bibliothekarin

19:30: Lesung: Digital/Analog

Anschließend: Eröffnung der Fotoausstellung mit Arbeiten von Ort Siman-Tov spaces.transformations und kleiner Empfang

Venue

ICI Berlin
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With

Orit Siman-Tov

Organized by

Corinna Haas
Claudia Peppel