A collection of video works from the CCA archive that engages with the performative aspects of education. The program was inspired by Amir Yatziv's exhibition "A Report," which centers on Peter, an ape-man character drawn from Kafka's story A Report to an Academy which Yatziv reanimates through AI technologies. While Yatziv's work raises questions about learning in human-animal and human-machine relationships, this collection examines the ways in which education, initiation, and the transfer of knowledge are embodied in human to human relationships. The works play with the mechanisms of education and reveal its performative elements by acts of imitation, repetition of conventions and rituals through which knowledge is embedded in the body, shaping the ways in which we are expected to understand the world.

The program includes works by:

Guy Ben Ner, Hadassa Goldvicht, Christian Jankowski, Karam Natour, Ruti Sela, Shay-Lee Uziel

Curated by: Yael Messer, Shahar Mizrahi, Tal Yahas

The works in screening order:

Hadassa Goldvicht, Writing Lesson #1 (From the "Reading/ Writing" series 2005-2020), 2005, 1:52 min.

Based on the traditional Jewish custom of introducing boys to literacy through the sweetness of licking verses covered with honey, the artist examines the relationship between language, body and gender.

Guy Ben Ner, Wild Boy, 2004, 17:16 min.

Ben Ner’s DIY hommage to François Truffaut’s 1970 film L'Enfant sauvage

Ruti Sela, Livnot, 2003, 3:00 min.

A video created in honor of the exhibition of the Winners of the 2003 Minister of Culture (and Education) Awards.

Karam Natour, Heat in My Head, 2015, 18:18 min.

The banality and the complexity of the relationship between the artist, his widowed mother, and his twin brother.revealed through a series of performative acts.

Christian Jankowski, The Matrix Effect, 2000, 24:54 min.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Matrix Program, Jankowski casts an all children ensemble to portray the known artists that originally took part in it, thus revealing the jargon and discursive conventions of the world of art.

Shay-Lee Uziel, Call for Applications: BABY C’EST LA VIE, 2011, 1:38 min.

A call for artists to create educational videos for babies.

Duration: 70 minutes

Admission: 20 NIS

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Images:

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Christian Jankowski, The Matrix Effect (Museum Director Jim Elliot), 2000.

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Hadassa Goldvicht, Writing Lesson #1 (From the "Reading/ Writing" series 2005-2020).

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Shay-Lee Uziel, Call for Applications: BABY C’EST LA VIE, 2011.

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