Noa Gur's video installation used a green screen that was placed in the street, opposite 1:1 Center for Art and Politics. The green background was simultaneously replaced by images of different interior spaces, mostly museums, as the result was projected in the 1:1 exhibition space. Passersby walking by the green screen saw themselves when they looked into the space through the front window that separated 1:1 center from its neglected surroundings.

The real-time photographic action is characteristic of the surveillance and monitoring strategies of both museum spaces and neglected public spaces, which are the focus of crime. This intervention sought to challenge the separation between art spaces and the streets, and to confront participants with the experience of observing themselves and being observed in these two different spaces.

The images of the exhibition spaces were taken from the Internet and refer also to virtual museum tours, which became popular during the period of home isolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Paradoxically, they have highlighted the obvious reality in which the poor and homeless are excluded from the cultural sphere, even without the need to physically enter the museum.

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In addition to the performative video installation "Fields" (2020), the exhibition included the following video works:

 (2015) Collective Identity

 (Postmodern Decoration (2008/2014 

 (Artdubai (2014

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  Opening 25.5.2020

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Panel discussion about the exhibition "Noa Gur: Fields"

 2.7.20

With Keren Goldberg, Noa Gur and Ruthie Ginsburg

Moderator: Omer Krieger

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A conversation among curators, artists, and art theorists regarding the use of video as a medium in the public space, and the political and aesthetic possibilities it presents.

The real-time photographic action is characteristic of the surveillance and monitoring strategies of both museums and neglected and crime-ridden public spaces. We will discuss the installation “Fields” by Noa Gur, namely, the supposedly natural separation between art spaces, the streets and the outside world. We will also discuss the growing presence of the planted background and the green screen as a means of beautification and phantasm competing with reality, and about the conditions of broadcast, observation and visibility as well as the construction of visibility as it is expressed by three additional

video works, which were filmed in different exhibition spaces.

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Streetview: looking at the museum from inside out
Maria Veits and Noa Gur in a streetside talk

30.7.20

The modernist concept of a museum of art envisions it as a local entity that is, on the one hand, affiliated with municipal and national authority and ideology while, on the other, it strives for autonomy from the above, and aspires to timelessness and universality. This brings contradiction to the very core of museum spaces: connected to the local context and identity they are still challenged by attempts of de- territorialisation and de- physicalization, either as a part of a global process or even more so by their online engagement strategies enhanced by the pandemic.
Using as a point of departure Noa Gur's new work 'Fields', installed at 1:1 Center for Art and Politics and the street just outside it, in the disregarded Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neve Shaanan, artist Noa Gur and curator Maria Veits discussed the relations between museum spaces and their various - existing and potential - audiences, as well as the ways to create loopholes and pathways for 'unwanted' publics to enter clean museum spaces.
The talk took place on the location of Gur’s outdoors video installation opposite the 1:1 Center for Art and Politics. Its green background is simultaneously replaced by images of different interior spaces, mostly museums, and the result is projected inside 1:1’s exhibition space, visible from the street through its storefront window. A passersby walking on the street by the green screen can see themselves as a part of the projection, if they look into the space through the front window that separates 1:1 from its neglected surroundings.
The discussion was streamed live on Facebook, as part of 1:1 TV broadcasts.
 

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