Amazing! / The Spectacle Culture: A Multidisciplinary Event Following the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective (Hebrew)
Tel Aviv Museum of Art in collaboration with Portfolio Magazine
Amazing! will examine the age of the spectacle in art and culture, in the real world and in digital media. How do museums, artists, designers and technology people represent the Zeitgeist? What need is expressed by the constant search for the WOW effect and raising the excitation threshold? What features characterize the contemporary spectacle, and what social and cultural phenomena does it articulate?
The event will feature an encounter of key people and experts from the fields of culture, academia, technology and media, with an audience interested in culture, art and innovation in Israel.
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17:00–17:15
Introduction
Tania Coen-Uzzielli, TAMA Director
Hagit Peleg-Rotem, co-editor, Portfolio Magazine
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17:15–17:55
We Have an Idea
17:15–17:25 — Metaverse: The Next Generation of Social Technology? | Sophie Gersh-Barak, Metaverse Communications Director, Meta Israel
Metaverse, last year’s buzzword, Internet 3.0, an ambitious vision about to materialize. What does the future hold for the worlds of design, fashion and architecture? What will art look or feel like in a decade or two? What can be experienced now?
17:25–17:35 — What is Gaming all about? | Eitan Reisel, Founder, Managing Partner, vgames
17:35–17:45 — NFT: Code and Art | Ben Benhorin, Digital artist and UI designer, founder of the digital product design course at Shenkar, creator of audio-visual installations for museums and NFT, design team leader at yotpo.com
NFT’s entry to the world of art has whipped up storms, opened financial opportunities and raised questions about content, quality and value. The financial hit and the art market’s new coin – the good, the bad and the unknown
17:45–17:55 — Immersive: Sinking in the Big Picture | Hagit Peleg-Rotem, Co-editor, Portfolio Magazine
From the Tate Modern Sunrise and Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms to the new wave of experiential museums and the selfie – how is art viewed in the era of the digital spectacle
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17:55–18:40
Art as a Spectacle: from the Pyramids to Beyoncé | Prof. Gal Ventura, Historian of modern art and Head of the Art History Department, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
How video clip culture and social media change the way we view art and transform us from passive viewers to active partners
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18:40–19:40
Free tour of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
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19:40–20:10
Kusama-rama
19:40–19:55 — Kusama-rama: the spectacle in Yayoi Kusama’s work | Shahar Molcho, Associate curator of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most elusive and eccentric contemporary artists. Her work is richly diverse and her infinity rooms are some of the most visually complex and provocative works created today. A discussion of the spectacular dimension of the works of Kusama, who was ahead of her time several decades before the age of the selfie and social media
19:55–20:10 — Kusama-rama: the audience as spectacle | Mira Lapidot, Chief Curator, TAMA
The exhibition at TAMA offers a double-spectacle experience: Kusama’s impressive works of art, as well as the masses of viewers. There is a performative dimension to the audience, which not only flocks to the exhibition but also “appears” in it.
The phenomenon of the audience in a spectacle, its cultural sources and its unique place in contemporary
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20:10–20:30
Impossible Fashion | Liroy Choufan, Fashion and material culture theoretician. History and Philosophy Lecturer at Shenkar.
Digital clothes, ghost dresses and the future of the beauty ideal
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20:30–21:00
Amazing?
Tania Coen-Uzzielli, TAMA Director
Yuval Saar, Chief Editor and founder of Portfolio Magazine
Rinat Sherzer, Head of Design Management and Innovation Track in M.Des in Industrial Design in Bezalel, Editor X Wix
Dr. Ofri Ilany, Historian and Culture Researcher, Van Leer Institute, publishes the column “Under the Sun” in the Haaretz supplement
After the sensual flooding, the constant chase after stimulations and innovations, the questions arise: How long for? What will the exhibitions of tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and the next decade look like? What will we seek in the actual world and what will we find in the metaverse?
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21:00–22:00
Free tour of the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
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22:00–23:00
Spectacular: Drag Show
Glory Hollywood | Gallina Port des Bras | Fluid Snow | Laila Keri | Nona Chalant | Anton FKA | Celine la Divine | Alma
The conference ends with a spectacular show produced by One Night Only, featuring Israel’s drag queens and kings. The world of drag is famed for being militant, radical, larger-than-life, colorful, stunning and artistic. The show “Spectacular” was especially tailored for the” Amazing!” conference at TAMA, taking the viewers on a hypnotizing journey through various and varied lands
The One Night Only production company focuses on elaborate drag shows in Israel featuring the best international and local queens
Please Note!
*Drag show: NIS 100
*Drag show (for conference ticket holders): NIS 50
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Spaces are limited.