ADINA BAR-ON PERFORMANCE ARTIST
EARLY PERFORMANCES, 1973-1981
1973, Adina Bar-On, 1st Performance in the yard of the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Jerusalem
"I announced my first performance (... (...) I wrote the hour and the day, in the yard of Bezalel (...) After the performance I was told explicitly that I could'n go on doing things like that. The directors also invited the Bezalel psychologist to see if I was sane, and he indeed noted that I touched upon a very sensitive filaments in the viewers".
In May 1973, at the backyard of the Old Bezalel building in Jerusalem, on the paved surface surrounded by a low parapet. Chairs arranges in rows. About twenty minutes.
(full description available in Idit Porat's book "Adina Bar-On. Performance Artist" published by Herzliya Museum of Art, 2001.
"Very, very strong, what I went through at your performance.
(...) I am stirred by the approach which I think should guide all of us - to touch the truth, and not in in all kinds of formal, aesthetic, etc., pseudo-intelectualism. I don't know what art is, for I've heard from "professional connoisseurs" that this is not art (...) And I don't care if it is or it isn't and if art does touch upon these problems but in a different way that enables distance, form, material, causality, inner logic (formal as well)".
(exerpts from the letter of Gabi Klasmer)
Yona Fisher text
At the outset, Adina's performance were presented in front of diverse audiences out of ideological and social intentions. These shows had no names.
1973
In the Bezalel Yard at 17:00 hours - The1st performance. Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.
Birds - The 2hd Performance.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
1974
The Technion Institute of Techonology, Haifa.
1975-1977
Zavta Theaters.
Ha'Gefen House - a cultural center for Arabs and Jews.
Kibbutz evening gatherings.
New immigrant centers.
Youth centers.
Old-age homes.
Community centers.
Private home gatherings.
1975
The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem.
The Artist's House, Jerusalem.
Graphics 3 gallery, Haifa.
Sara Gilat Gallery, Jerusalem.
Debel Gallery, Jerusalem.
1976
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Meizag 76, a Performance-Art event, Tel Aviv Artist House.
1977
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem - Performances for the Ashdod port workers.
1978
Meitzag 78, a Performance Art event, Tel Aviv Artists House
1982 Private Party חגיגה פרטית Israel Independence Day elebrations; Dizingoff street, Tevl Aviv
1981 Ms. Davis גב' דייויס
[Visual Design:Daniel Davis
Movement consultant: Ronit land.]
The Acre Festival of Theatre
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Tel-Hai 83, a Contemporary[ Art event
1980 Sky שמיים
[Movement consultant:Ronit land.]
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The Haifa Museum of Art
The Kibbutz Gallery, Tel Aviv
1979 Walking On a Thin Line הליכה על קו דק
[Movement consultant:Ronit land.]
The Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem.
Tel-Hai 80, a Contemporary Art event.
Adina Bar-On, Second Performance "Birds", Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1973.
Adina Bar-On, Second Performance "Birds", Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1973.
Adina Bar-On, [Untitled performance], Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1976.
Adina Bar-On, Walking on a Thin Line, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1979.
