ADINA BAR-ON        PERFORMANCE ARTIST

From Adina's description of the performance:

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"This performance takes place, as a journey/ a walk, on a chosen venue in an urban space.
Through traffic, crossing roads and familiar land marks I am followed than lost and found.

I adjust this work, Disposition, each time to the new location to which I have been invited (Nachshon, Israel; Hong-Kong; Tirana, Albania; Tel Aviv, Israel, Quimper, France; Helsinki, Finland; Toronto, Canada; Belfast, Ireland; Lublin, Poland, Oświęcim, Poland).

*The conception of this work was confirmed while I was observing the Yugoslavian war on television in Tel-Aviv (how ironic). The images of population movement, not armies, on the roads, The disruption of boarders and the contours of home, family and ideologies intrigue me.



The woman in my performance envisions her boundaries in scraps of stories about homes and neighborhoods she has lived in, visual film-like images she creates as "woman in landscape", "woman with vehicle", "woman with flag", and situations provoked between herself and the audience as leader and followers.  I am intrigued by this power and agitated by the premonition of a basic primitive drive that seems to be creation and destruction in one.

I suppose this work will be another of my attempts to question what appears as the inevitability of destruction in the process of construction."



*the following is an excerpt from an Article, written by Martin Zet, and published in Umelec International / Contemporary Art and Culture.