Yehudit Mizrahi
'Jong Talent 2008' Rietveld Academy
I believe an art work can be a micro-cosmos - reflecting the world and creating a new one. I see it as a form of communication that provides us with safe grounds to question, explore and understand our selves and the society we live in; that is valid for spectators as well as for makers. I see art as a platform to debate on and learn with, a chance to evoke new life outside the routine of life.
In my work I mainly intermingle technology, sound and movement. I am intrigued by an abstract idea and during the creative process searching for the suitable way to execute it. Untill now, I worked on sculptures, interactive sound installations, performances, textile, moving image, poetry, kinetic art and jewellery, while my fascination is to dissolve the boundaries between these art forms.
Maarten de Reus, Chairman of committee wrote;
With this letter I reflect on the work Yehudith Mizrahi made for her graduation show at the Rietveld Academy in the summer of 2008.
Yehudit’s project is exactly in the middle of three worlds: Music, Dance and Sculpture. Music and Dance were her background when she started studying at the Rietveld academy, Sculpture became her ambition. Her end-exam piece is a perfect merger of the three. One could say that Music is the animation of materials: objects and things start to reverberate and swing; from strings to reeds, from the skin of a drum to a vocal chord. Dance is the animation of the body, the choreography beyond the practical chores of instrumental movements. The end exam installation of Yehudit is a room full of animated objects, ordinary and well knows objects, but they are alive, they move, open and close, turn, rattle, breathe, whistle, sigh and heave. It is interactive too, the simple choreography of a visitor moving around this room makes the various objects react and come alive. With this, the work touches on the very first functions of sculpture; that of the fetish, the totem, the animation of inanimate, the mediation between dead things and living things. In the hands of Yehudit sculptures become musical instruments, music becomes a choreography of furniture, and an ordinary room becomes a magical place...
Maarten de Reus
Chairman of committee
teacher Audio Visual Department
Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Curriculum vitae Yehudit Mizrahi
- Naam:
- Yehudit Mizrahi
- Geboren:
- 0000,
Opleiding
periode |
type |
institution |
richting |
diploma |
2005 - 2008 |
kunstacademie |
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam |
Audio Visual |
ja |
2007 - 2007 |
kunstacademie |
Theatre School, AHK |
Guest-student in the SNDO |
ja |
2003 - 2005 |
kunstacademie |
Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag. |
Sonology external course |
n.v.t. |
2002 - 2003 |
overig |
SAE-Technology College, amsterdam |
Music Production course |
ja |
Exposities
periode |
naam |
plaats |
solo/group |
omschrijving |
12/2007-3/2008 |
Radio Berale |
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
groeps |
experimental audio visual installation |
10/2006 |
Waterproof Skin 2 |
Red Light District |
solo |
Physical installation in a window. |
Nevenactiviteiten
periode |
omschrijving |
2007-2008 |
Member of the band Toyfish Trap. |
2007 |
THE REJECTION DRESS,Textile made out of various rejection letters and was mentioned in the NRC. |
12/2007 |
THE TOILET PROJECT, Sound installation in the toilet of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. |
2006 |
FICO LE MÉCANICHIEN One minute movie, nominated for the One Minute Award of the Sandberg Institute |
2005-2006 |
WATERPROOF SKIN,A serial work which deals with the sensorial system |
2006 |
Theater Music instalation, OBNAZENI festival,Czech Republic. |
2005 |
BUTTERFLY,Sarcastic video clip on the song ‘butterfly’ by Lenny Kravitz |
2005 |
HOW TO USE THE DIAL PHONE, Sound design assignment for a silent telephone commercial |
2005 |
Composing the music theater installation ‘THE INVISIBLE’, Gymzaal Project, Rietveld Academie. |
2004 |
Sound designer of ‘MY NAME IS M’- a research project in a form of video dance. |
2004 |
Performing in ‘MAXWELL DEMON’ structured improvisation by the composer Walter Fabeck (UK) |
2004 |
Composing the music for the dance piece ‘I HAVE A DEAD DONKEY IN MY BACK TRUNK’,DWA ,Amsterdam |
2003 |
DE OVERSLAG, Performing in experimental music festival Eindhoven |
2002-2003 |
Establishing & leading the WhatEver Band- a performing sound research, TVAK, Amsterdam |
2002 |
Broadcaster of the feminist radio program, RADIO PATAPOE, 97.2 FM, Amsterdam |
CHOREOGRAPHY |
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10/2006 |
‘THE SECOND CAST OF THE BLACK SWAN’, Muiderpoorttheater, Amsterdam |
7/2005 |
‘PINOKIO, WAIT A SECOND’, Dance Shorts, Overtoom 301, Amsterdam |
6/2005 |
‘METAMORPHOSE’ in a collaboration with the composer Josef Robber, Korzo Theatre |
2004 |
‘I HAVE A DEAD DONKEY IN MY BACK TRUNK’– Choreographic collaboration, DWA, Amsterdam |