Mind Crossing NYC, 2017
May 2017, Collaboration with the artist/musician Tal Gur (talgur.net) Photos: Izik Mishan concept/composition: Tal Gur
Choreography/dance: Jasmin Avissar
Dance: László Benedek, Jasmin Avissar
Music: Noa Fort, Rene Hart, Nick Anderson
Technical support: Al Hoberman
Mind Crossing Vienna, 2017
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien - Semper Depot on June 2017
with: Tal Gur, Jasmin Avissar, László Benedek, Herbert Könighofer, Hannah Eisendle, Christian Stolz
Technical support: Richard Dixon, Yarden Zana
Installation: Alexandra Ben-Abba, Costumes: Juhász Józsefné Irénke
Photos: Eckhart Derschmidt, ,Mela Richtig,
Performance hosted by Media Labor Akademie der Bildenden Künste - Friedemann Derschmidt
Photo: Izik Mishan
Photo: Izik Mishan
Photo: Izik Mishan
Photo: Izik Mishan
Mind Crossing Munich, 2018
July 2018, Outdoors performance in Alten Botanischen Garten München as part of the exhibition Family Archives in the Kunstpavillon Munich.
with: Tal Gur, Herbert Könighofer, László Benedek, Jasmin Avissar, Friedemann Derschmidt, Ralf Homann
Photos: Ralf Homann
Special thanks to Ron Blume for making this performance possible!!
Tal Gur and Jasmin Avissar collaborate in a multi disciplinary performance of music and dance to examine the possibilities of performing arts to act as a tool for redefining family narratives and identities.
The performance follows the story of Arye and Sonja, Tal Gur`s grandparents, Holocaust survivors on their route of refuge after World War II, portrayed through letters Arye wrote to his sister form their journey.
Photo: Mela Richtig
Photo: Mela Richtig
Photo: Mela Richtig
Photo: Mela Richtig
Photo: Ralf Homann
Photo: Ralf Homann
Photo: Ralf Homann
Photo: Ralf Homann
What does it mean to start the performance
at the entrance of the brown quarter in Munich?
How does the clash of memories and reality affects the performance?
Are we as blind today as we were in the past?
Can we read the signs or just keep tangoing in the park?
The space itself of the Alten Botanischen Garten and the Kunstpavillon, added another layer to
the piece and allowed Tal and Jasmin to connect the personal family story to a wider sphere of cultural memory. In this space, past and present coexist, creating inner contradictions and broken mirrors which brought different aspects of the work forward.
Mind Crossing (2020) -segment Parallel
5.7.2020, Weißgerberviertel Vienna
with:
Tal Gur (composition, live-stream music, Israel)
Jasmin Avissar (Choreography, dance)
László Benedek (dance)
Birgit Stöger (text, theatrical intervention)
Jan Thümer (text, theatrical intervention)
Karin Schneider (research, workshop)
Anna Vera Derschmidt (Assistance)
weißgerberviertel, 1030 Vienna. photo: ©Amela Ristić
weißgerberviertel, 1030 Vienna. photo: ©Amela Ristić
weißgerberviertel, 1030 Vienna. photo: Malte Andritter
weißgerberviertel, 1030 Vienna. photo: ©Amela Ristić
Mind Crossing-Linz 19.9.2020
collaboration with Stadtmuseum Nordico
with:
Tal Gur (composition, live-stream music, Israel)
Jasmin Avissar (Choreography, dance)
László Benedek (dance)
Jan Thümer (text, theatrical intervention)
Casimir Paltinger (guided tour)
Karin Schneider (research, workshop)
Anna Vera Derschmidt (Assistance)
Mind Crossing Walking Act 2021 - 1060 Vienna
with:
Tal Gur (composition, music)
Jasmin Avissar (Choreography, dance)
Žiga Jereb (dance)
Katrin Grumeth (text, theatrical intervention)
Elisabeth Zoumboulakis-Rottenberg (text, intervention, oral history)
Karin Schneider (research, workshop)
Anna Vera Derschmidt (Assistance)
"...In this performance we try to create an abstract space where all these stories; our fictional figures and situations, the embedded history of the city and literature texts representing different voices in society in the past and present , all have an indirect dialogue, offering each time a different reflection, an invitation to connect and create our own associations about the past - the personal or collective past, and how it affects us today."
photo:Helmut-Prochart
photo:Helmut-Prochart
photo:Helmut-Prochart
photo:Helmut-Prochart
Mind Crossing walking act 2021-Linz 19.6.2021, 11.7.2021, 15.10.2021
collaboration with Stadtmuseum Nordico
with:
Tal Gur (composition, music)Jasmin Avissar (Choreography, dance)
Žiga Jereb (dance)
Katrin Grumeth (text, theatrical intervention)
Casimir Paltinger (guided tour)
Karin Schneider (research, workshop)
Anna Vera Derschmidt (Assistance)
Saturday 16.10.2021, whole day creative workshops with Karin Schneider, Tal Gur and Žiga Jereb
Foto: Violetta Wkolbinger
Foto: Violetta Wkolbinger
Foto: Violetta Wkolbinger
Foto: Violetta Wkolbinger
Mind Crossing - walking act 2021 - Wolfsegg
17.10.2021, Wolfsegg am Hausruck
with: Tal Gur , Jasmin Avissar, Žiga Jereb , Katrin Grumeth , Karin Schneider, Luis Löwenstein, Alexander Mayer, Jakob Wernisch
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mind crossing - Wolfsegg
mind crossing - Wolfsegg
Mind Crossing - Wolfsegg
Mind Crossing - was geht dir im Kopf herum? (2022)
Linz 13.5.-14.5.2022
as part of the symposium "Von Fridl Dicker-Brandais lernen"
Kunstmuseum Lentos
Tal Gur , Jasmin Avissar, Žiga Jereb , Katrin Grumeth , Karin Schneider
Who tells the story - Choreographer’s notes
The exhibition allows us to look through the story of friedl as an individual at the story of the society of her time, in art, history and politics. This connection between the story of one and the story of many, inspired me to focus in the performance on two story tellers: The private family story of Tal Gur and the mirrors he offers us to look through and the wider story of “us” here in Austria as part of central Europe and the german speaking realm, represented through the german language, literature texts and music and context. There is a tension between the “micro” and the “macro. Sometimes they collide, sometimes they run parallel and sometimes they work in tandem, completing each other. And this constant push and pull of broken mirrors, allows us as participants and audiences to open associations, thoughts and questions about “us today”, as unique individuals and as part of a larger group.