Friday is an audio-visual happening inspired by the sixth day of creation, as depicted in Genesis I.
by: Ariel Efraim Ashbel (Performance), Maya Dunietz (Sound installation), Alona Rodeh (Installation)
Performers: Moran Abergel-Yitzhakey, Efrat Aviv, Ariel Cohen, Osnat Kelner, Assaf Korman
Soundsystem integration: Ronny Shubinsky
Costume design: Avinat Gottesman
Anti-Optics: Yair Reshef
Line producer: Inna Shender
Management: Liron Zabari
Premiere: June 4th 2010, the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, as part of the "Oz in the city" festival
Friday is a part of the Seven Days Project, an interdisciplinary piece comprised of Space and Objects by visual artist Alona Rodeh, performers instructed by director Ariel Efraim Ashbel and an electro-acoustic soundscape by musician Maya Dunietz.
In this part of the work, which spans over 4 hours, the performers' actions are centered around a large wooden object, a sculpture which resembles a traditional millstone, with small speakers in it that play the high pitch sounds. Across from it is another wooden object, which is split into several leveled platforms. This second sculpture, which resembles a stage or an olympic podium, functions as a subwoofer and plays the low frequencies in the piece's soundtrack.
In this context of work in its most physical sense, trying to build a system where human energy is diverted into goods, this sculptural environment is both a totem and a place; The space is thus a site for lust, domination, restriction and destruction, both a playground and a war zone. The human body is stretched to its limits and is performed through different prisms that hectically locate it and relocate it within a liminal sphere between subject and object, abject and brand.
