2008 |ONE Channel | 7 min 13 sec.loop | Edition of 7+2AP
The work SABBATH 2008 documents the closing down of the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem on the eve of the Sabbath in the year 2008. The inclusion of the year in the title of the work suggests an archival perspective, reinforced by pereg’s declaration to produce a new version every 10 years. Thus SABBATH 2008 is a photographic ritual by itself, a ritual preceding the event which proceeds the religious ritual.
In most parts of Jerusalem, public access to the ultra-orthodox neighborhoods is blocked by means of temporary barriers, which stay put for 24 hours – thus creating an artificial border between these areas and the rest of the city. The barriers are put in place by neighborhood residents, with the approval and support of the Jerusalem municipality and the police. Once the barriers are erected, no cars are allowed into Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox neighborhoods. The city is thus topologically transformed into two cities – with and without cars. Although the value of these somewhat rickety barriers may appear above all symbolic, their presence is a source of friction and conflict; they delineate a clear-cut boundary between the sacred and the mundane.
Makers:
Filming & Editing: Nira Pereg
Sound design : Nati Zeidenstadt | Post: Tal Korjak
The Double Exposure Project, Shpilman Institute
SIP : The Double Exposure Project: Nira Pereg & Boris Groys talking about SABBATH 2008
Publisher: Tel Aviv Museum of Art. March 2011
Soft Cover: 170 pages
Language: English & Hebrew
ISBN : 978-965-91706-0-9
Dimensions: 27 x19 cm
Shipping Weight: 1 KG
Design by: Nadav Shalev
Texts:
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Mignon Nixon: The Undiscovered Country
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Hans Haacke: Guns and Roadblocks
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Philippe-Alain Michaud: The Burial Chamber
Medium Religion: Faith, Geopolitics, Art
by Boris Groys (Author), Peter Weibel (Author)
Paperback – February 28, 2010
Publisher : Walther König, Köln (February 28, 2010)
Language : English
Paperback : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 3865606040
ISBN-13 : 978-3865606044
Item Weight : 2.15 pounds
Dimensions : 7.91 x 0.84 x 10.07 inches
The religious movements of today no longer depend on the handselling of literature such as bibles, pamphlets etc, but instead operate predominantly with electronic picture media such as video and television that can be disseminated much more widely, and which are capable of enormous rhetorical impact. Medium Religion approaches religion as a media phenomenon, whose expressions are subject to the same laws of reproduction as any other consumer entity, and focuses particularly on geopolitical religious hotspots like the Middle East, Asia, Russia, North America and South America. It contains commentary by (among others) such notable thinkers as Boris Groys, Peter Sloterdijk and Slavoj Zizek; contributing artists include Adel Abdessemed, Oreet Ashery, Maja Bajevic, Paul Chan, Omer Fast, Barbad Golshiri, Kajri Jain, Vitali Komar, Alexander Kosolapov, Nira Pereg, Dorna Safaian, Anri Sala, Michael Schuster, Wael Shawky, Joshua Simon and Jalal Toufic.
Ynet הזוכה בפרס גוטסדינר: נירה פרג: Heb
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3875293,00.html
הארץ Haaretz" מועמדי פרס גוטסדינר נירה פרג: Heb
https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/1.3315679
Sharing a National Identity, Emerging Artists Engaging in a Visual Language
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/arts/design/12chance.html?_r=0
Eternal life in a digital world
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/eternal-life-in-a-digital-world-1.768270
a conversation with Boris Groys
Beaux Arts magazine | 2008 French/Eng
Art Focus questions ouvertes
בצלאל כתב עת לתרבות חזותית וחומרית:Heb
בצלאל כתב עת לתרבות חזותית וחומרית
האם האמנות יכולה יותר? דיאלוג סוקרטי עם אוצרי הארט-פוקוס
GLZ Radio: Heb
Interview on Radio with Yaron Vilensky
2016
The New Museum, NYC | USA
2014
Musée national d’art moderne centre Pompidou
Paris | France
2011
Chiado Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2010
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles | USA
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin | Germany;
2009
Winner of The Nathan Gottesdiener Foundation
Israeli Art Prize 2009, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art,
Tel Aviv | Israel