{"id":26711,"date":"2024-04-08T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T05:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/?post_type=mt_event&p=26711"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:43:12","slug":"what-are-you-facing","status":"publish","type":"mt_event","link":"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/en\/events\/what-are-you-facing\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are You Facing?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhat am I facing?\u201d is a question that is seldom asked in all seriousness. In most cases, the answer will be quick to come, and will rely on pre-defined, readily available templates. The brain has difficulty lingering in uncertainty, and is tempted to use readymade, easy-to-use answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26684,"template":"","event_cat":[93,152],"acf":{"event_type":"exhibition","subtitle":"","logo":null,"event_custom_toptix_link":"","duration":"","video":"","start_date":"20240405","price":"","location":"","ages":"","people":"","hosts":"","dates_text":"5\/4\/2024 \u2013 29\/6\/2024","single_page_text":"","bottom_text":"\u201cWhat am I facing?\u201d is a question that is seldom asked in all seriousness. In most cases, the answer will be quick to come, and will rely on pre-defined, readily available templates. The brain has difficulty lingering in uncertainty, and is tempted to use readymade, easy-to-use answers. The question, \u201cWhat am I facing?\u201d does not necessarily seek one answer. The source of the question is an attempt at orientation \u2013 orientation in space and time, in human relationships, and in the world around us. It is a question about the very creation of categories, about the self-evident and transparent, about the order of things. However, the question, in and of itself, reduces the field of vision, isolates it, and excludes other questions: What is above \/ below \/ behind me? What or who stood here before me?<\/span>\r\n\r\nSome of us are familiar with the question, \u201cWhat am I facing?\u201d from the encounter with an artwork. In an art exhibition, this question often arises as part of the interpretive process of searching for meaning, for understanding. It arises from the basic premise that a guiding hand knowingly chose exactly what we will see, what we will easily identify and what will become alien, what we will know and what will remain unknown.<\/span>\r\n\r\nAn exhibition is a static state that lends itself to the act of interpretation. Unlike the art space, the space we live in is dynamic \u2013 a random mix of constantly changing events, interests, stories, and constraints. Even when it is edited, its curators remain anonymous. There are no credits. The anonymity of the editing of a space, often under the guise of randomness, is deceptive. It omits words, sentences, and entire paragraphs from the spatial text, and creates a seemingly uniform, but incomplete, story. It seems that we always know too little about the place we are facing. In most places, we are unable to distinguish between the random and the predetermined, between the story and the testament \u2013 especially in spaces where a uniform and coherent story is told, such as historical sites, but also in others that are not. It is the story we live in, the story that has erased other stories, and since it is self-evident to us, we are virtually blind to its existence.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\n***<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe exhibition <\/span>What Are You Facing?<\/span><\/i> was created following a group journey in search of traces of the Ottoman Empire in the local region. Four-hundred years crammed into one undivided, vague chunk of time. Its defined \u2013 ostensibly clear \u2013 boundaries actually blur it. However, its tangible traces are evident in everything: the space we live in is stamped with <\/span>tughra<\/span><\/i>, the sultan\u2019s seal. It is a broken seal, its parts scattered, masked, without context, and it cannot be put back together. But tracing it reveals a different story \u2013 a story of erasure, of neglect, of denial; of an empire that was no better than other empires \u2013 in this empire, too, there was violence, exclusion, corruption, decay. Yet observing it enables us to look differently at the space around us: to expand the lens of our gaze not only to what we are facing, but also towards ourselves.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe research group comprised people from diverse fields of practice \u2013 academic, artistic, political. In the course of a year, which included tours, encounters, and lectures by researchers and artists from Israel and Turkey, we assembled a puzzle that remained partial, faithful to its incompleteness. The multidisciplinary group\u2019s work also yielded artworks. Each of them raises a whole series of questions that seek orientation, but do not necessarily seek a clear answer. Some of the works are poetic, and some are distinctly research. The exhibition includes a reference room that is an art project in itself, but it also displays texts and findings collected during the months of joint research.<\/span>\r\n\r\nThe group\u2019s work also yielded a collaborative project of the same name as the exhibition: \u201cWhat Are You Facing?\u201d The project is a kind of \u201cguided search\u201d for traces of the Ottoman Empire in Israel\/Palestine. It is a fragmentary guide with multiple voices, which continues to ask questions, to linger, and to challenge the possibility of giving answers. It does not provide orientation, but an array of examples, and a mountain of questions. It is an open platform that invites participation and expansion, an increasingly growing multilayered, multicultural, and multidisciplinary assemblage of critical spatial readings. You are invited to visit it by means of the listening posts scattered throughout the exhibition space, or on the dedicated website. The \u201cguide\u201d speaks alongside the artworks, but not about them, and has an independent existence outside the exhibition space as well \u2013 its questions can apply to any space you choose.<\/span>","bottom_gallery":[{"title":"Curator:","content":"Avital Barak"},{"title":"Artists:","content":"Keren Benbenisty<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> Amnon BarOr, Michal BarOr, Sigal Barnir, Mark Yashaev, Ella Littwitz, Elham Rokni, Hagit Keysar, Ariel Caine, Miki Kratsman."},{"title":"","content":"\"\""}],"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":26673,"video":""},{"image":26671,"video":""},{"image":26679,"video":""},{"image":26677,"video":""}]},"yoast_head":"\nWhat Are You Facing? • \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u05db\u05d6 \u05dc\u05d0\u05de\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d3\u05d9\u05d2\u05d9\u05d8\u05dc\u05d9\u05ea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cda.org.il\/en\/events\/what-are-you-facing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Are You Facing? • \u05d4\u05de\u05e8\u05db\u05d6 \u05dc\u05d0\u05de\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d3\u05d9\u05d2\u05d9\u05d8\u05dc\u05d9\u05ea\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWhat am I facing?\u201d is a question that is seldom asked in all seriousness. 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