{"id":3463,"date":"2014-08-13T23:16:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/play\/%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%92%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%a1-2\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T08:04:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T06:04:44","slug":"nystagmus","status":"publish","type":"play","link":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/nystagmus\/","title":{"rendered":"Nystagmus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font8\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>Nystagmus is a current artistic<br \/>\nreaction to two exhibitions held by Hitler in Munich during 1937 &#8211; &#8220;The<br \/>\nGreat German Art&#8221; and<\/span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span> &#8220;The Degenerate<br \/>\nArt&#8221;. It&#8217;s an exclusive, first-time collaboration between the independent<br \/>\nSKR gallery and Munich Volkstheatre, aimed at exploring the potential<br \/>\ntheatrical mechanisms imbued in the museum space and that were used by the<br \/>\nNazis to instill their cultural doctrine.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font8\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>Nine artists were commissioned<br \/>\nby the curator Anton Erlich to present their works in a collective exhibition<br \/>\nheld inside the theatre space.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>The audience was welcome to<br \/>\nfirst tour the display area and later to take part in the opening ceremony,<br \/>\nwhere some of the commissioned artists<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span>presented their performance<br \/>\npieces, created specifically for this event.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><b><u><span>Connecting Dots \/ Uriah<br \/>\nRein-Merchav<\/span><\/u><\/b><u><span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>A sceno-graphic work that<br \/>\nexamines the historical degeneration of both German and Israeli societies,<br \/>\nusing historical documents of the artist&#8217;s personal biography.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><b><u><span>Conversation with a Phantom &#8211; A<br \/>\nSite Specific S\u00e9ance \/ Medium Sybille Maria Lang and Felicitas Lang<\/span><\/u><\/b><u><span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>An endeavor to channel the<br \/>\nworld of the dead and the entities from beyond that relies on real-time<br \/>\nquestions from the audience.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><b><u><span>My Cervix \/ Bruno Spatz with<br \/>\nactress Magdelena Weidenhopfer<\/span><\/u><\/b><u><span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>A piece criticizing the<br \/>\ndictatorial taking over of interpretation on the art world.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><b><u><span>Commercial Break \/ The Sturm<br \/>\nTwins<\/span><\/u><\/b><u><span><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"font8\" dir=\"LTR\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\">\n<p class=\"font7\" style=\"margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:18.0pt;vertical-align:baseline\"><span>An installation based on the<br \/>\nproducts of popular culture that seeks to expose the psychological<br \/>\nmanipulations inherent in modern propaganda.<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nystagmus is a current artistic reaction to two exhibitions held by Hitler in Munich during 1937 &#8211; &#8220;The Great German Art&#8221; and&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8220;The Degenerate Art&#8221;. It&#8217;s an exclusive, first-time collaboration between the independent SKR gallery and Munich Volkstheatre, aimed at exploring the potential theatrical mechanisms imbued in the museum space and that were used by&#8230; <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/play\/nystagmus\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9893,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/play"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/play\/3463\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dramaisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}