{"id":24935,"date":"2023-04-18T13:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/?post_type=mt_event&#038;p=24935"},"modified":"2023-06-28T13:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T10:59:23","slug":"light-to-the-nations-yael-bartana","status":"publish","type":"mt_event","link":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/en\/events\/light-to-the-nations-yael-bartana\/","title":{"rendered":"Light to the Nations &#8211; Yael Bartana"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exhibition &#8220;Light to the Nations&#8221; is a project that was created in the last year and is presented for the first time at the Center for Digital Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24327,"template":"","event_cat":[152],"acf":{"event_type":"exhibition","subtitle":"","logo":null,"event_custom_toptix_link":"","duration":"23\/02\/2023-17\/06\/2023","video":"","start_date":"20230223","price":"","location":"","ages":"","people":"","hosts":"","dates_text":"","single_page_text":"","bottom_text":"In 1947, during the Cold War\u2019s nuclear threat, a group of atomic scientists founded the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of the likelihood of global catastrophe that indicates how close we are to midnight, or world destruction. The main factors influencing the clock are nuclear risk and climate change. In 2023, the clock\u2019s minute hand has moved, setting the clock at 90 seconds to midnight, and it is still ticking.\r\n\r\nNowadays, we are witnessing the privatization of space and the accelerated development of the space industry. Due to advances in miniaturization and reusable rocket technologies, this industry is expected to grow significantly in the coming decades, with the hope of leading humanity towards life in space. This development brings us closer to a science-fiction-like reality and is marketed as a solution for human existence. However, it is actually part of the problem, as it creates a divide between the ultra-rich and the rest of humanity and disregards moral restrictions.\r\n\r\nLight to the Nations by artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana is a proposal aimed at saving humankind in the face of a global catastrophe that would extinguish any possibility of life on Earth. This proposal is influenced by post-apocalyptic science-fiction literature as well as a critique of today\u2019s accelerated technological progress and a fear of the economic and political forces involved in it.\r\n\r\nThe title Light to the Nations points to the Jewish-Israeli context of the work and its connection to the historic and moral role of the Jewish people. At the heart of the work is the creation of a generation ship for Jews \u2013 a mothership that will lead humanity towards Tikkun Olam (lit. \u2018the repair of the world\u2019). This vessel is designed to host a large community for millennia and to travel far beyond our solar system. However, its ultimate goal is unknown: whether to inhabit a faraway planet, return to and populate Earth once it recovers, or travel endlessly, ever evolving, aboard this spaceship. The generation ship is seen as a project of the Jewish nation that will serve as the spearhead in repairing the world, an example for all nations to follow.\r\n\r\nAs the project evolved \u2013 through discussions with theorists, science-fiction connoisseurs, scientists, theologists, and space industry professionals \u2013 the futuristic science-fiction framework seemed well suited for observing and contemplating the changes in the future of humanity, its current problems, and the promise and\/or threat of technological progress. Is a generation ship feasible? Where should or could it travel? How should the ship\u2019s community function and organize itself? Who will its members be? And what about those left behind \u2013 people, places, and things? These questions were vital in shaping the project, and they stimulated the imagination of every expert involved. The project thus presents a new perspective of futuristic opportunities for Jews and all of humankind. Yet, unlike in science-fiction literature, where concepts are organized in well-defined plots, Light to the Nations uses fragmented concepts to invite the audience to imagine many different alternatives.\r\n\r\nThe structure of the generation ship is based on the Kabbalistic diagram of the Tree of Life, consisting of ten spheres (for the ten Sefirot; lit. \u2018emanations\u2019) that represent God\u2019s aspects. This structure symbolizes the ambition to create and sustain a wide range of human activities \u2013 personal, communal, and cultural-exploratory. The Kabbalistic influence on the ship\u2019s design sets the concept of Tikkun Olam as the foundation of the ship\u2019s community and its organizing principle. The ship\u2019s structure emphasizes the importance of establishing new relationships among its inhabitants for creating a new, rectified world beyond Earth. This is an invitation to think about Tikkun Olam, or the repair of the world, in two complementary ways: one addresses the social-human aspect, and the other refers to the physical world, namely Earth itself, which may recover in our absence. Therefore, the ship must sustain full and dynamic human existence, allowing its inhabitants to evolve, change, grow, develop technologies, and preserve and create culture.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition showcases different ideas and opportunities for creating a community, rituals, and new and renewable culture. They explore the link between the material culture left behind and the new, evolving world, and represent our imagination about the next generations \u2013 what we want them to remember, how they might act, and how they might connect to their earthly past. For instance, the soil mound at the center of the room can be used as an area for worship and meditation, where people can contemplate their attachment to the land even in its absence; or the three videos of dance performances\u2013 which are based on Labanotation, a system for analyzing movement that Rudolf von Laban developed in 1920s Germany \u2013 can be seen as social rituals designed to connect people to the land and nature. These multiplied renditions for a group of dancers acting as one organism express the desire for redemption. These ways of imagining the future attempt to preserve part of the past that would enable the new and frame it as an option or a warning about the danger of repeating history. The images of monuments, libraries, and habitats encountered in the VR experience also help preserve the memory and foundations of the community, or perhaps they are the remnants of lost cultures, the archeological artifacts of an almost forgotten society.\r\n\r\nDuring the exhibition, workshops involving children, youth, experts, and researchers will take place at a round table and will serve as a conceptual laboratory for exploring the potential social, theological, and economic implications of the generation ship in a possible future. A collaborative conceptual development and the invitation to participate in the thought process are crucial for imagining this new community.\r\n\r\nLight to the Nations proposes a redemptive idea for repairing the world and uses the political imagination as a platform for future possibilities, an act Yael Bartana terms pre-enactment. Through the generation ship, the artist creates an archeology of the future and a means to explore both the past and the present.\r\n\r\nWe would like to thank the artist\u2019s family, and the Israel Museum for use of the image of the sculpture Nimrod (1939, Itzhak Danziger, an Israeli artist [b. in Germany], 1916-1977, Gift of Dr. David H. Orgler, Zurich and Jerusalem)\r\nSculpture photography: Dan Robert Lahiani\r\n\r\nArtistic Advisor: Doreet LeVitte-Harten\r\nGeneration Ship Architect: Assaf Kimel\r\nSound design and music: Daniel Meir\r\nGraphic design: Gila Kaplan and Avi Bohbot\r\nNeon sculpture design and wall drawing: Guy Saggee - Shual Studio\r\nVR design: Highroad Stories - Mike Robbins, Harmke Heizen, Assaf Kimel\r\nText: Yami Wisler\r\nAnnouncer: Yehudit Ben-Yaakov\r\nAnimation production: Achtung4k Studio\r\nAnimation editing: Daphna Keinan\r\nLighting design: Yair Vardi, Rotem Elroy\r\nSpace design: Assaf Kimel\r\nArtifacts production: Eili Levy, Saygel &amp; Schreiber, Sassi Mazor, Uri Batson, 3D Signs\r\nExhibition producer: Adi Nachman\r\n\r\nVideo series \u201cRehearsal for Redemption\u201d\r\nDirector of Photography: Simon Veroneg\r\nProducer: Eyal Vexler\r\nChoreography: Mor Bashan\r\nDancers: Wibke Storkan, Yasmin Shonma, Veronica Partgreco\r\nColor grading: Simon Veroneg\r\nCostumes: Yael Shanberger\r\n\r\nOpening night performance\r\nChoreography: Mor Bashan\r\nDancers: Yael Wachman, Ahinoam Chai, Tamar Even Chen, Shahar Hanin\r\nCostumes: Ata\r\n\r\nBartana Studio\r\nRichard Gabriel Gersch\r\nEsper Postma\r\nSaskia Wendland\r\n\r\nCatalog editing and translation: Noa Shuval\r\nCenter for Digital Art producer: Hadas Gur-Arie\r\n\r\nThe project is realized with the kind support of Mondriaan Fonds and Mifal HaPais\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24452\" src=\"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Untitled-4-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>","bottom_gallery":[{"title":"Artist: ","content":"Yael Bartana"},{"title":"Curator: ","content":"Udi Edelman"},{"title":"For your attention -","content":"Thanks to the positive reviews, and due to the great demand, we decided to keep the exhibition \"Light to the Nations\" open for a longer time, so that more people could experience and enjoy it.\r\n\r\nThe duration of the exhibition was extended until <strong>06\/17<\/strong>"}],"list_title":"","list":null,"platform_hours_title":"","platform_hours_content":"","platform_info_title":"","platform_info_phone":"","platform_info_cell":"","platform_info_email":"","platform_credits_title":"","platform_credits_subtitle":"","platform_credits_icons":null,"posts_query":"latest","posts":null,"select_term_id":null,"Code":"","Name":"","ID":"","BriefText":"","DetailText":"","ReviewUrl":"","TrailerUrl":"","DirectLink":"","SummarySaleStatus":"","LongMinutes":"","BreakMinutes":"","MediumImageUrl":"","SmallImageUrl":"","LargeImageUrl":"","ShowTypeId":"","RecommendedForSlideShowInGenres":"","ShowTypeName":"","EventDate":"","FormattedDate":"","ActualEventDate":"","StartSaleFrom":"","EndSaleAt":"","LastUpdate":"","SaleStatus":"","SoldOut":"","IsFutureSaleForDisplay":"","OwnerId":"","OwnerName":"","HallName":"","HallGuid":"","smallimage":null,"mediumimage":null,"largeimage":null,"event_display_dates":null,"gallery":[{"image":24496,"video":""},{"image":24498,"video":""},{"image":24500,"video":""},{"image":25144,"video":""},{"image":25146,"video":""},{"image":25148,"video":""},{"image":25150,"video":""},{"image":25152,"video":""},{"image":25154,"video":""},{"image":25156,"video":""},{"image":25158,"video":""}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Light to the Nations - Yael Bartana &#8226; 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