pARTicipation and Public Involvement

pARTicipation is the name of the game - people pARTicipate in my work actively and are involved fromthe first pART throughout all the stages of the process.The locations, the subjects, the language,are all a pART of the pARTicipants daily life and the installation is a celebration - the pARTy.I get public involvement by choosing the right location, by being approachable, by the relevant issues I deal with as well as the simple, communicative and playful way they are being presented. My style, the metaphors, stories and aphorisms that I use are always at an eye level so it's easy to identify with them. Furthermore, I make sure the pieces are always affordable or even completely free.

By asking my audience to send me pictures of my works at their new homes, I can stay in touch with them. Sometimes even turn individuals into the artist themselves. By doing so, they let me know in what ways my work is relevant to them and to their lives. They pARTicipate by becoming involved, a supportive community that helps me with communication, materials, photography, construction and advice.

In some of the installations people were invited to take the works with them and send me pictures of my art in its new home:

Irit

Irit takes a 'rejected' Popsicle. She adopts him ,calls him Pinky and here he is at his new home irit 'rejected Popsicle. She adopts him ,calls him Pinky and here he is at his new home. Here he is 'developing '-updating during the years (in 2016 he became a 'she'.

Shir (illustrator) gets a Popsicle & ask & get permission to change it & to write a story about a Popsicle in the big city. .

shir

Efrat

Efrat gets a Popsicle, and brings it home. She prepared a leaf, and brought Cassete boxes for the next instalation

Mati

Mati got a Popsicle. In the next instalation, he took a leaf , which Yali (another pARTicipant) made. He prepared a leaf for the event, and he was also the photographer.

Blue Lady

The game in 'Transeparent People' was -Finding a magnet without a person ( a 'transparent'/ unseen person). In it , there is a hintAwhich directs , to find the person (in a Cafe).

The pARTner's leaves which grew The Last Leaf installation

The Last Leaf project was all about pARTicipation. About 50% of the leaves were NOT createby me. Some of the leaves were created and contributed by people who had already taken Popsicles at a previous event. Some were made by my family, friends and other artists. They also helped by donating materials, taking photos and more. Everyone could stay involved in the making of the project by following my facebook posts.

But most of the leaves were created by the staff members at a psychiatric in-patient unit. My original idea was that the patients would be making these healing leaves, but alas, they were in no condition to work... it was the staff that passionately volunteered to make them. This is when the story took an unexpected turn, and ended up healing the healers themselves... :)

I packed each leaf with a bandage and created a facebook page especially for them, titled OPENDEEPARTMENT. I’m currently working on getting more organizations to pARTicipate in the project.

a/ Stuff members at the psychiatric unit...

Photos from the project can be seen at the WORKS page!

Artists, Collaboration, Inspiration, Give & Get

Sometimes I collaborate with other artists, for example by exchanging art works - pieces that I created on a certain subject that they are too dealing with and vice versa, or continuing each other’s works.

Here you can see Conardo de Maleta upgrading my Popsicles, Colaboration with Sharon Pazner

Art for Art with Ori Gami, Pete-squak and Avigail Chinanchvili.