Category: Diary

Drawing Session with Efrat Lipkin in her
Bunker Studio in Montefiore, Tel Aviv.

“Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, FRS (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Jewish family, he donated large sums of money to promote industry, business, economic development, education and health among the Jewish community in the Levant, including the founding of Mishkenot Sha’ananim in 1860, the first settlement of the New Yishuv. As President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, his correspondence with the British consul in Damascus Charles Henry Churchill in 1841–42 is seen as pivotal to the development of Proto-Zionism.”
(Wikipedia)

The Bunker is still active.
So in case of an alarm she has to move her stuff soon
and host the people. It´s Israel, so it happens!

Efrats work goes deeply into the idea of machines in its aristotelian
idea. I am looking forward to see her newest work at the end of Oktober
in a group exhibition in TV (i will publish the dates).
We direcly stepped into drawing and made some intense drawings.
Have to redo this.

Later i signed for my “Oktober – Appartment” in the Carmel Market area in Tel Aviv.

 

 

Because of a hack attack on my server.. i am a bit in a delay
writing the diary. But there are masses of fotos on facebook. 😉

Acco

A drawing Session with people from the”Shop of Meaning”

 

— Acco

— Neve Ziv

Had a Drawing Session with Dori Schechtel Zanger.

I love her Drawings on the puppets and her installations.

Neve Ziv (Hebrew: נְוֵה זִיו, lit. Brightness Home), also known as Ziv HaGalil (Hebrew: זִיו הַגָּלִיל, lit. Brightness of the Galilee) is a communal settlement in northern Israel. Located east of Nahariya, it falls under the jurisdiction of Ma’ale Yosef Regional Council. In 2014 it had a population of 786. (Wikipedia)

— Acco

Clil

Had a selfmade humus from Ygal for breakfast, filled up my water and he gave my a bag of homegrown apples for my way to Acco.
Wasn´t easy to leave!!

Acco

I strongly recommend to read more about the history and the
present of this city. Just some sentences from Wikipedia:

“Acre (/ˈɑːkər/ or /ˈeɪkər/, Hebrew: עַכּוֹ, ʻAkko, most commonly spelled as Akko; Arabic: عكّا‎‎, ʻAkkā)^[2] is a city in the northern coastal plain region of the Northern District, Israel at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. The city occupies an important location, as it sits on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, traditionally linking the waterways and commercial activity with the Levant.^[3] The important land routes meeting here are the north-south one following the coast and the road cutting inland through the Plain of Esdraelon; Acre also benefits from one of the very rare natural harbours on the coast of the Land of Israel. This location helped it become one of the oldest cities in the world, continuously inhabited since the Middle Bronze Age some 4000 years ago.

Acre is the holiest city of the Bahá’í Faith, and as such gets many Baha’i pilgrims. In 2014 the population was 47,464. Acre is a mixed city, that includes Jews, Muslims, Christians and Baha’is. The mayor is Shimon Lankri, who was reelected in 2011.”

I was invided by Eytan George Hurwitz. He made my stay in Acco to one of the most intense experiments that ever happend to me. I will not even try to discribe him. Go to Acco sit in a cafe or just ask for him in the streets. Everybody knows him and he deserves it.

Another restaurant Tip: The “Mercato” in the old market. We all know this one great restaurant in the habour of Acco. This one is topping it!

At first he gave my machine on a machine idea another face. Even as cool as mine:

 

Zichron Ja’akow Highschool

My first educational lecture. 12 grade hight school at Sunday
morning 8.15. After everybody (including me!) was awake, we had a good
time and at the end we made something like a 4 meter drawing
on the Dreawing machine together.

Zikhron Ya’akov (Hebrew: זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, lit. “Jacob’s Memorial”; often shortened to just Zikhron; Arabic: زخرون يعكوف‎‎) is a town in Israel, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. It is located at the southern end of the Carmel mountain range overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, near the coastal highway (Highway 2). It was one of the first Jewish settlements of Halutzim in the country, founded in 1882 by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and named in honor of his father, James Mayer de Rothschild. (Wikipedia)

Clil

I was invited by Yael  an artist living in Clil, her mother Tami hosted me (she is an artist too and runs a cafe in clil). Yael introduced me to Ygal a painter with german roots. So we started drawing
and had long and intense talkings about Israel and Germany, roots and history of family and living inside nature.
Always with a view to the bay of haifa.
Just about 10 km from the border to the Libanon nobody would expect a place of peace,freedom and respect like this.

Text from Clil Guesthouse:

“Clil looks like no other village in Israel, a widely dispersed, ecologically attuned community nestled in the foothills of the Western Galilee overlooking the Mediterranean.

It is considered to be Israel’s first ecological village.  It was built in 1979 by a group of philosophers and artists who had the vision of creating an alternative village, close to nature, living according to ecological and organic ideas.

Clil is not connected to the main power grid and therefore completely powered by solar energy. Locals try to respect the nature and preserve local plants and natural forests.  There is no use of pesticides or chemicals on any of the produce grown in the area.  There are also no street lights in Clil and houses are spread far apart from each other, so it is the perfect place to star gaze and enjoy the night with minimal light pollution.”

Night Stroll Jerusalem

The Original Text from the homepage of Night Stroll “”

(i am still working on the video)

“At midnight, when everyone else is sleeping and the city goes quiet, we will open the gates of the Tower of David and invite you in for a night of musical surprises spanning all of the world’s continents.

As every year, we invite you to join us from midnight to sunrise to stroll through the tower’s magical spaces and into the white light. To wander from Indian devotional singing to ancient Persian melodies served up with an electronic vibe, from the songs of Carlebach with a twist of reggae to the realm of the psychedelic meeting the African savannah, and to create your very own nighttime experience. This year you can also enter a pitch black room where your eyes won’t confuse your brain with visual information and you can recharge your senses with music that will permeate your ears, your feet, and your heart.”

“As the first rays of sun appear above the Old City, we will gather together around the central stage for a special performance by Yasmin Levy, daughter of Jerusalem, who combines Ladino music, Flamenco dancing, and traditional Spanish rhythms in a journey that is one great love song—to Jerusalem, to rhythm, and to humankind.

Castle in Time

The new concert hall groove # Opening performance of Night Stroll 2016 on the central stage.

Anna RF

A celebration combining a Kurdistan wedding, a Jamaican rave, and a hafla in Istanbul

Azmero Project—Mela Mela

Amharic music with a fascinating Israeli twist

Carlebach Goes Reggae

A Jerusalem tribute to the songs of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach with rhythms that come straight from the Caribbean

Duo Gaidavul

A bagpipe and Dhol drum duet—between the Balkans and Asia

Liraz

Iranian music meets electronic beats that span Teheran, Jerusalem, and Los Angeles

Pulses

Experience the powerful immediacy of music

Tamar Shawki—Roots

A journey that begins with classics from some of the world’s greatest Arab singers and ends with an original and personal Israeli composition.

The Spirit Blows Through Time

An instrumental quartet, an Iraqi musician, and an Israeli dancer in a meeting of time and spirit

Tigris

Afrodelic, surf, power-pop, and groove in a performance that is a colorful jungle of sound”

 

All day Workshop at “The Gottesmann Etching Center”

in the Kibutz Cabri. A great day in the North, i learned

a lot about new (and classical) forms of etching.

The architecture in the Western Galilee landscape is amazing.

And here something about its history:

“In 1996, Rachel and Dov Gottesman, art collectors who are actively involved in the fields of plastic art and music in Israel and abroad, arrived here for the first time, marking the beginning of the tie and the friendship forged by the Gottesmans with the Workshop staff and the community in Cabri. In 2000, following a meeting in New York with the American artist Jim Dine – sculptor, photographer and master printmaking artist, they initiated a master class encounter in the Etching Workshop in Kibbutz Cabri, where, together with Jim Dine, they worked with 12 Israeli artists for a period of 10 days. … (more at www.cabriprints.com).

Thanks all for this great day!

Had a fruitful talk with the teachers of Petach Tikva, planning a workshop together. Some useful exercises and some theoretical ideas about socratic dialectic will be my part. In the afternoon i went to a fight club called “Two Swords” לוחמי האור in Chadera חדרה for a drawing session. It is on the country side , in the woods. They teach kids in close combat and collective responsibility.