By Gilad Ashery, Ofir Ashery, Naama Doron-Angel, and Jonatan Reisner

Desert Dead presents a three-day performative installation in which the artists rehearse burial rituals in mud. Three figures operate within the space: the burier, the buried, and the worker, rotating roles at the end of each cycle. The rituals unfold in an environment that includes a workstation, a burial station, a coffee station, and a cluster of mud igloos built using a military technique for constructing shelters. Sandbags taken from a nearby construction site are piled in one corner, while a coffee urn bubbles in another. They transform into each other in a passage between states of matter, functioning as a system that generates neither more nor less, but only shifts from one condition to another.

A thermal camera hovers like a bird of prey, transmitting simultaneously into the space. The thermal image reveals traces of heat and imprints of touch that humans leave and encounter in their surroundings. A technology whose origins lie in military enemy-detection systems is repurposed here as a map that gives the work its organizing principles

Duration: 150 min 

Admission: 60₪

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*out-of-office led by SweeTransfer (Shahar Mizrahi and Yoel Peled), is a series of events focusing on time-based media – video, sound, and performance – in line with the multidisciplinary spirit of the Center for Contemporary Art Tel Aviv-Yafo. ״o-o-o״ seeks to strengthen and nurture the local art scene.

Desert Dead, 2025

Curtesy of the artists