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Tsvi & Jonah Bokaer. Photo: Benedicte Longechal. |
- Based on his father Tsvi Bokaer's Le Danseur Errant et La Méditerranée
- Contemplative, quiet, intimate
- Dream-like, at times ritualistic
- Pre-verbal, animalistic movement (crawling, lying) or childlike (step-hopping)
- Some OCD type gestures, like rubbing scalp or grabbing the floor with toes
- Tsvi uses his scarf to blindfold Jonah, who gropes along the perimeter
- This imparts a hostage situation feel to the work, which never entirely eases up
- Seated as if to play jacks, one slides his ring to bump the other's, making a sharp ting; following that, they fist bump
- Jonah stands on one leg and cants his body forward and the other leg hooks back, creating an amazing sculpture
- We sense that this quite private artist has let us into his personal world for a night
- 6 fluorescent pan fixtures are suspended upside down like swings in a circle
- The two "shoot" out each light, "pew," in a humorous showdown
- Jonah dips his hands into the river of light that takes the place of the fluorescents, and you can almost feel it like a viscous substance
- A pile of newspaper pages sit at center; later separated and eventually hung on the swinging fixtures
- The soundscore, by Soundwalk Collective, is a hypnotic montage of found sound and utterances
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Jonah, a sculpture. Photo: Benedicte Longechal. |
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