Mound Hacker at Tel Megiddo
While driving near home, I notice archeologists’ tents on one of the yellowish fields on the slopes of Tel Megiddo. Is there real history hiding under the cropped barley? The guard who says they will be excavating for three more days only. Tel Megiddo is a very special archaeological mound; its 27 layres are orgenized […]
Tel Nona, Audience Version, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
I have been working intensively preparing for a one-night performance installation at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Contact Point , is a marvelous exiting witty event that asks questions about art. I was invited to creat at the archeology wing. For me, it means creating in my shrine, where my inner roots of art thrived, I […]
2013 ,תל נונה, גרסת הקהל, מוזיאון ישראל
בחודשים האחרונים אני עסוקה בהכנות ללילה אחד מיוחד במינו במוזיאון ישראל בירושלים 25.7.13 נקודת מגע בערב זה היוצרות מתהפכות ושאלות מהותיות על אמנות נשאלות באופן הומוריסטי ולעתים נוקב .אחכה לכם באגף הארכאולוגי ואצור מיצג ומיצב תל נונה, גרסת הקהל – מיצג כבר כמה חודשים שאני מנסה לנחש מה ינחת על שולחני ואיך אמצא בחפץ פלסטיק […]
Memory and Oblivion
Once a week, I come to visit my father. We slowly walk on the balcony. We gaze at the orange groves and the old 19th century Arab building deteriorating but still beautiful. Lately, I see tents. Archaeologists are excavating! Every week there are more tents. We look at them, and I say to him that […]
PAESTUM
I research artistically and playfully mounds and archaeological sites. Lately, I even have become a Mound Hacker. I have been thinking of the fact that the “library” I am diligently creating- is also doomed to be gone, vanished one day- as we all are, as Pompeii. The Internet is a precise metaphor for this notion. […]
Be my guest: Dr. Helen Wickstead, Archaeologist
Finally- reality meets fantasy! After over ten posts about my Mound Hacking project, and sending links around the world, I got a wonderful surprising e-mail. Dr Helen Wickstead is a REAL Archaeologist, working in the UK. This is what she wrote: “ I am very interested in your project and wonder if you might be interested in […]
Mound Hacker- Ostracon at the pond, Pompeii, Italy
My current site-specific art project is intervening in the time lines of actual Tells [mounds] and archaeological sites around the Mediterranean. I am visiting Pompeii. I offered the pond in Pompiie a ceramic shard. A group of Japanese tourists came closer. Will they will notice anything extraordinary? I stood and watched. . It seemed they did not […]
Mound Hacker-Pompeii, Italy – The story of the guard
My current site-specific art project is intervening in the time lines of actual Tells [mounds] and archaeological sites around the Mediterranean. I am visiting Pompeii. I ask the guard when were these engravings carved. He smiles: “They are Roman graffiti! You have good eyes!” He then remarks there are more engravings at the women’s bath […]
Mound Hacker-Pompeii, Italy
My current site-specific art project is intervening in the time lines of actual Tells [mounds] and archaeological sites around the Mediterranean. I am visiting Pompeii. The Vesuvius is everywhere, you can’t miss it. It is a reminder, silently awaiting there. It is a reference point, beginning and end to History and living here today too. My mother […]