Mother of Foreign–A Multilingual Audio Journey (in Hebrew)
A Site-Specific Installation by Neta Weiner, Preformed by Neta Weiner and Samira Saraya
Mother of Foreign is a journey of identity and language that unfolds within the public spaces of the museum, becoming a site for encounter and confrontation between the two halves of the city of Tel Aviv–Yafo: Tel Aviv (including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art) and Jaffa.
The performance, created and adapted specifically for the museum building, is a walking performance – a movement of body, voice, and text – that connects the physical ascent through the museum’s floors with a descent into the archaeological and narrative layers of Jaffa. At each of the five stations throughout the museum, an original hip-hop poem will be performed, revealing a different layer of Jaffa’s story.
From the immense fracture of our present times, the work seeks to carve out a possibility for logic, truth, and perhaps even healing – through a deep exploration of place and the archaeology of language: Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English are interwoven into a multilingual, poetic, and political tapestry, crafted along the journey.
About the Artists:
Neta Weiner is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, playwright, and social activist, recipient of the Shechter-Rabinowitz Prize for Original Israeli Creation (2020). He is the lead vocalist of the Arab-Jewish hip-hop ensemble "System Ali" and serves as the artistic director of the cultural movement "Beit System Ali". Weiner lectures on writing at the Kibbutzim College, teaches performance art at Tufts University in Boston, is a spoken word teacher at Nissan Nativ Acting Studio, a creator and actor in award-winning productions, a television and theater actor, and recipient of the Kippod Ha'Zahav Prize for fringe theater.
Samira Saraya is an actress, director, writer, spoken word artist, and a Palestinian-Israeli LGBTQ+ activist. Saraya has received multiple awards for her work in theater and film. Her short film Polygraph (2020), which she wrote and directed, was the first to feature an openly lesbian Arab character in cinema, and won Best Screenplay at the 2020 Tel Aviv LGBTQ Film Festival.
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Supported by Outset Contemporary Art Fund
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Note: This event is in Hebrew only.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
The event takes place near a secure space.