To: The Field

To: The Field marks two decades since the Center for Contemporary Art moved into its home on Tzadok HaCohen Street. Over the years, the CCA has become a cornerstone of Israel’s art landscape – a space for artists and audiences seeking to capture the elusive spirit of the contemporary.

This three-day gathering invites artists and art lovers to come together. Through performances, exhibitions, conversations, and shared experiences, we’ll revisit the past, look ahead, and resonate the present together.

Program highlights:

~ Frequency Calibration, a collective drone sound action for times of war and peace

~ Cabbage Head, a flash Group Exhibition

~ This Thing I’m Looking At, artists and thinkers share what currently fascinates them

~ Through a-way, a full day of live musical performances across moods and styles

~ Video Program from the CCA Archive

Thursday-Saturday, 6-8 November 2025

Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv-Yafo

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In November, twenty years ago, the Center for Contemporary Art moved into its current home on 2a Tzadok HaCohen Street. Until then, it operated from a small room on the fifth and mysterious floor of the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, following the vision of Sergio Edelsztein, who sought to create alternating platforms for time-based art presented across the country. These early activities helped develop and establish the mediums of video and performance art in Israel. With the move to its current location, the CCA became a physical home for those wishing to engage with the pulse of the contemporary through experimental artistic practices. Over the years, it has become one of the pillars of the field – a place for artists striving to capture and articulate the elusive spirit of our time.

To: The Field is a three-day gathering of renewal and convergence. It is an invitation to send a fresh resonance through the aging building, to try out new formats, to look forward and backward, and above all, to be together. This event is for you, the people who compose the artistic fields in Israel; who, despite all the wounds and challenges of this place, continue to create, to experience art, and to insist on being here. This place belongs to the field, and exists for it. Let’s foster it together.

This is also an opportunity to thank all those who have built and carried the CCA throughout the years: Sergio, who founded the center out of his deep love for art and artists and directed it for decades; Diana Shoef, the legendary producer and pillar of the CCA, who continues to hold the place together; Nicola Trezzi, the outgoing director, who led the center to new directions; curators Maayan Shelef and Chen Tamir; Maya Pasternak, Ruti Sela, Cordoba collective, Arttatack, Guy Bernard Reichman, and all the dedicated and unruly people who made this place what it is. We also wish to thank our supporters and donors, whose generosity allows the CCA to remain independent and free. And to all the artists, who fill our lives with insight and inspiration.

Events

Frequency Calibration – A Drone Sound Action for Times of War and Peace
Thursday | 6.11 | 7:00pm

As a tribute to the work of Gazan music teacher and social activist Ahmad Moin Abu Amsha, we will gather to hold a single note by voice or instrument for one hour. The action joins a series of initiatives by Israeli musicians that emerged during the war, inspired by Abu Amsha, who encouraged his students to sing and play along with the sound of the drones hovering over their daily lives, as an act of resistance against the erasure of Gaza’s cultural institutions. The drone, once part of the harsh reality, became in his hands a musical instrument – a means of presence and solace.

In drone practice, the long, sustained tone might seem aimless, but in its stillness lies power – a frequency that remains, resonates, builds space, and leaves a vibration even after it fades.
Like the Buddhist metta (loving-kindness) meditation, the act is performed with generosity, without purpose or goal, only with intention. You’re invited to join – bring an instrument or simply your voice.

Cabbage Head: A Flash Group Exhibition
Thursday-Saturday | 6-8.11

Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg’s 1976 concept album L’Homme à Tête de Chou, this exhibition pairs artists who shift between roles and hierarchies, creating a narrative space where stories intertwine into romances, conflicts, and imagined encounters – a distorted telenovela woven from works placed side by side and within one another.

Artists: Orit Adar Bechar, Or Ariely, Meital Aviram, Leila Rose Bari, Yahav Gal, Yonatan Geron, Tomer Fruchter, Shahar Mizrahi. Curators: Meital Aviram and Shahar Mizrahi.

This Thing I’m Looking At
Friday | 8.11 | 11:00am-12:00pm (First session), 1:00pm-2:15pm (Second session)

We invited artists and thinkers to share what fascinates them these days – an object, word, phenomenon, or idea at the center of their current thought or gaze.
A gathering for sharing and reflection – an opportunity to observe artistic and intellectual processes in motion.

Participants: Laila Abd Elrazaq, Ariel Sereni Brown, Dr. Zohar Elmakias, Dr. Amir Farjoun, Talia Keinan, Roy Menachem Markovich, Lee Nevo, Michal Samama, Muhammad Toukhy. Curator: Tal Yahas.

Through a-way: Musical Lineup
Thursday | 6.11 | 10:00pm
Saturday | 8.11| 12:00pm-6:00pm

Swaying through moods, favoring rootless freedom over the comfort of stillness. Landmarks lead from one point to another – In case we begin the journey in reverse, will we traverse the same path? Through a-way is a lineup of musical live acts born from the intensity of walking through landscapes.

Program

Thursday | 6.11

Throughout the Center
7:00pm – Drone Sound Gathering for Times of War and Peace (You are invited to bring musical instruments)

Ground Floor
• 10:00pm – Live by Ryskinder

First Floor
• 7:00pm – Opening of Cabbage Head, a Flash Group exhibition.
Artists: Meital Aviram, Or Ariely, Leila Rose Bari, Orit Adar Bechar, Yahav Gal, Yonatan Geron, Tomer Fruchter, Shahar Mizrahi. Curators: Meital Aviram and Shahar Mizrahi

• 8:00pm – Cycle of Behaviors of the Installation ´VPN’ by Tomer Fruchter in collaboration with additional artists

• 8:30pm – Yonatan Geron, Moonlight Couch performance

Auditorium
• 8:30pm-11:00pm – Video Screenings from the CCA Archive. Curator: Neta Nachtomy

Friday | 7.11

Entrance Courtyard

• 2:00pm – Field Cooking, communal meal led by Ron Azar

First Floor
• 10:00am-2:00pm – Cabbage Head, Flash Group exhibition.
Artists: Meital Aviram, Or Ariely, Leila Rose Bari, Orit Adar Bechar, Yahav Gal, Yonatan Geron, Tomer Fruchter, Shahar Mizrahi. Curators: Meital Aviram and Shahar Mizrahi

• 12:15pm – Cycle of Behaviors of the Installation ´Anthrax’ by Leila Rose Bari in collaboration and performed by Mila Levy

• 2:15pm – Cycle of Behaviors of the Installation ´VPN’ by Tomer Fruchter in collaboration with additional artists

Auditorium
• 11:00am-12:00pm – This Thing I’m Looking At, first session
Participants: Lee Nevo, Laila Abd Elrazaq, Roy Menachem Markovich, Dr. Zohar Elmakias. Curator: Tal Yahas

• 1:00pm-2:15pm – This Thing I’m Looking At, second session
Participants: Talia Keinan, Ariel Sereni Brown, Muhammad Toukhy, Michal Samama, Dr. Amir Farjoun. Curator: Tal Yahas

Saturday | 8.11

First Floor
• 11:00am-6:00pm – Cabbage Head, Flash Group exhibition. Artists: Meital Aviram, Or Ariely, Leila Rose Bari, Orit Adar Bechar, Yahav Gal, Yonatan Geron, Tomer Fruchter, Shahar Mizrahi. Curators: Meital Aviram and Shahar Mizrahi

• 4:00pm – Cycle of Behaviors of the Installation ´Anthrax’ by Leila Rose Bari in collaboration and performed by Mila Levy

Auditorium
• 11:00am-6:00pm – Video Screenings from the CCA Archive
Curator: Neta Nachtomy

November 6, 2025

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