Dialogues: The tapes of Debel Gallery

Gallery Debel operated in Jerusalem in the years when the city was a pilgrimage center for curators, journalists and art enthusiasts and even than it was exceptional in the Jerusalem landscape. Etienne and Ruth Debel represented known artists, and discovered new ones to the world. Yair Garbuz, Raffi Lavie, Gabriel Cohen, Yocheved Weinfeld, Maya Cohen Levy, Daniela Passal and many others presented their work at the gallery at the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s.

While curating different exhibitions, Ruth used to interview the exhibiting artists. She recorded their conversations and transcribed them .

In collaboration between Ruth Debel and Mamuta at the Daniela Passal art and media center, selected interviews were bind together into a booklet named ‘Dialogue’.

“Publishing the interviews positions them as documents for Israeli art field in general, and in the Jerusalem art scene in particular. As study and research material, but also as a tribute to the action of our colleagues from a different period, and as an attempt to connect between our work in the present to theirs, in the past’

(Sala-Manca group, introduction to ‘Dialogue’)

the copyrights of the interviews belongs to Ruth Debel

Symposium about Body Art  – 1976

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/BODYART_T23A_P.mp3] [audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/BODYART_T23B_P.mp3]

Dialogue Between Rut Debel and Rafi Lavie  – 1978
[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/LAVI_T1A_P.mp3]

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/LAVI_T1B_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Rafi Lavie – 1978
[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/LAVI_T26A_P.mp3]

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/LAVI_T26B_P.mp3]

Dialogue Between Rut Debel and Naftali Bezem  – 1980

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/BEZEM_T10A_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and David Sharir – 1979
[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/DAVID_T15AB_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Michael Gross – 1978

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/GROSS_T6AB_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Yocheved Weinfeld

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/UNKNOWN_T29A_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Aviva Uri

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/AVIVA_T29B_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Shmuel Bak 1978 [audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/BAK_T2B_P.mp3]

Dialogue between Rut Debel and Shmuel Bak 1978

[audio:http://mamuta.org/mp3/BAK_EXPO_T25AB_P.mp3]


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The Mamuta Project is a center for artistic creation, encounters, research, and display of art. The Center, is an artist’s run space, developed and directed by the Sala-Manca Group. Mamuta is comprised of artists’ workspaces; video, sound, and electronics labs; a wood, metal, and plastics workshop. The goal of the project is to advance art projects and to create a framework for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation.

Mamuta offers guidance and support for the development of its artists’ individual projects, and initiates and produces projects at the Center as well as at other sites in and outside of Jerusalem—in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Israel and abroad. The project is dedicated to creating conditions for developing an active community of artists, allowing for personal development alongside collaborative work, through an engagement with the place and time.

A project by Sala-Manca Group (through Hearat Shulaym Foundation)

With the generous support of:

Ostrovsky Family Fund, Leichtag Foundation

From 2009 to August 2012 Mamuta project operated at El-Dan House, thanks to the kind support of Daniela Passal z”l, as a joint project by Hearat Shulaym and the Jerusalem Foundation. Since November 2013 Mamuta Center it operates at Hansen House.