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SPIRITS

“Spirits”

By Daniel Kiczales

Duration: 16:10 minutes

 23.11.2023 – 1.2.2024

Opening: 23.11.23, 19:00

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The work “Spirits” is an original sound piece created by Daniel Kiczales for The Tea House Gallery. In the gallery space, in an imaginary cathedral, stand four figures – Yitzhak Rabin and three male singers. Together, they conduct a ceremony, a musical-textual journey based on an interview Rabin gave in English in 1994, a year before his assassination. Rabin’s voice resonates in the space like a ghost returning to be heard almost thirty years later, encountering Israeli society in the present, during a time of war.

Kiczales weaves Rabin’s voice with the voices of a male choir, serving as a musical-dramatic framework for the interview. Similar to a Greek chorus, the choir in the work serves as a moral and values-based framework for Rabin’s character, and through it, Kiczales creates a renewed meaning for the text.

In eight musical chapters, the choir accompanies Rabin’s voice, addressing various aspects related to the foundation of existence, the conflict, and the fracture of Israeli society. These aspects are interwoven with Rabin’s personal autobiography – the War of Independence, the Six-Day War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ethics and leadership, the Oslo Accords, terrorism and religious zealotry.

“Spirits” continues Kiczales’s recent works that explore and elevate found images and characters at the core of Zionist canon ethics. In this work, Kiczales applies his musical and studio expertise to artistic vision, creating a unique artistic musical piece.

Composition Order:

Conflict, Terrible Conflict

Our War of Independence

Norms of Behavior

A Real Terrible Story

This Fabric of Relations

Calculated Risk

Enemies of Peace

If I May Add…

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Choir: Ariel Leykin, Gidon Levy, Daniel Kiczales

Curator: Amir Bolzman | Musical Consultation: Laila Mazal Yenishen  | Mix: Amir Bolzman, Daniel Kiczales, Ori Kadishay | Project Manager: Naama Mokady | Artistic Directors: Mamuta Art and Research Center and Hansen House

Daniel Kiczales is an interdisciplinary artist who combines video, sound, action, and music in his works. His works include processes of deconstruction and analysis of images, site-specific actions and compositions, and exploration of relationships between sound and space. His works have been presented in local and international exhibitions and are part of various collections. As a musician, he has released solo albums, collaborated in the duo “Yuppies  with Jeeps,” and composed soundtracks for stage and cinema works.

Opening hours: Mon-Thu 10:00-22:00, Fri 10:00-14:00

Photo by: Dor Kedmi

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More events at the exhibition:

Guided tour and listening in the exhibition with the curator Amir Bolzman, as part of the Manofim Festival, free entrance: 14.12.23, 18:30

Artist talk with Daniel Kiczales: joint listening and conversation about work processes with the artist and the curator Amir Bolzman. Free entrance. 23.1.24, 19:00

Artist talk at Hansen House Cinema, 16.2, 12:00

About Us

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.