ADINA BAR-ON PERFORMANCE ARTIST
REST, 1999-2005
From Adina's description of the performance:
"Rest is a paraphrase of a popular and old Israeli lullaby that has become mythological – “Rest For The Weary”.
In the Shopping Mall, Opera House and Central Bus Station suspended in a vertical elevated bed, way above the heads of passers by, I move as if in a state of sleep. As in a dream, out of the subconscious, I create images by my movement and my own vocal adaptation of the old Jewish Pioneer’s song.
Placing myself in these locations I had become a provocation but more than that an image of a plea or a cry for time-out, for rest, detached from ideological idioms."
I cannot
No! No! No!
"I truely believe that the investment, the dedication to my work -
I still believe that the investment, the
dedication to my work, as an artist, a teacher,
a mother and a sister, will further
my redemption - our redemption!"
(fragment of text from the performance)
Adina Bar-On, Rest, performance.