Neighborhood as a Global Arena

Neighborhood as a Global Arena, the 2nd Annual Conference of the Israeli Center for Digital Art was held on 13-16 December.

The conference concluded the first two years of Glocal Neighbors Project.

The program was based on activities and presence, and included lectures and presentations, audience discussions, ceremonies, workshops, and projects that came out of the Center into the neighborhood, and involved residents and additional local institutions.

 

 

 

 

Project Day at the Community Garden, collaboration with Perion

On March 2015, employees of Perion came to work at the Community garden in Jessy Cohen. They created Pyramides with different types of herbs, that will be used for the community Kitchen.

Tour de Nord - June 2015

A workshop container goes on a journey through the Nordbahnhof viertel, Stuttgart, causing and channeling cooperation, providing room for contact between people.
At four stations artists from the Wagenhallen cooperate with local partner institutions to install, conduct and document workshops and activities.

More info> http://tour-de-nord.de/

Second Residency Visit in Jessy Cohen

Artists Aurel Mechler and Julia Heuer visited Jessy Cohen during July 2015. They worked with youth in Mikve Israel boarding school in Holon, creating a grafitti covering one of the buildings wall and tie-dye T-shirts. They also created a giant graffiti painting on the hall walls at the Center for Digital Art, and tie-dye T-shirts with teenagers from the neighborhood.

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May @ the Hall
A demonstration for the rights of Israeli-Ethiopian communuty in Tel Aviv, a Spanish lesson, an exhibition by one of the kids and a party

 

Scratch Orchestra

Since November 2013, a group of women from Jessy Cohen and the area, are meeting every week with composer Amnon Wolman and cellist Dan Weinstein.
This workshop idea is that everybody who likes to play can do so, and not only that, but also take part in composing a musical piece that is meaningful to them. The emphasis has been on the performers’ experience during the process of composing and performing the piece, rather than on the final product.

Here are some photos from the orchestra's performance last week in the exhibition "A Piece for Two Floors and a Corridor", followed by a tour in the neighborhood, listening to a piece composed especially for the acoustic wall separating the neighborhood from the highway.