RAN SLAVIN

28.7.17 – 1.10.17 Variations Amud Anan installation is showing in OSTRALE Biennale for contemporary art in Germany, Dresden.
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11.5.17-14.5.17 I have been invited to judge in the Depth Of Field competition at DocAviv The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
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20.4.17 – Ursulimum opens at DATA CITIES, Centre Des Arts ENGHIEN-LES-BAINS / FRANCE
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Variations Amud Anan installation is showing in Terra Mediterranea: In Action for 7 months at NIMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus

Variations Amud Anan

Photo: Walther Le Kon

Group show from the Tirosh collection in Kiev:

THE PHILHARMONIC INSTALLATION

From tuesday next week we (myself and Nevet Yitzhak) screen a newly commissioned 70 meter video mapping on the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra’s inner windows and building in relation to their 80 years celebrations. The video focuses on intimate details of instruments and small mechanisms of playing which we shot during the Philharmonic’s rehearsals. On display every night after dark 20.12-31.12
Managing -Yudit Shapira Haviv
In cooperation with the Tel Aviv Municipality, The Philharmonic Fund and The Israeli Philharmonic
big thanks to Tali Gotlieb

HAIFA MUSEUM OF ART SOLO SHOW
WORLD 5 VERSION 2

World5version2 installation view (detail) Mixed media, video, sound. Haifa Museum of Modern Art 23/7/16-22/1/17

Curator: Svetlana Reingold, Revital Silverman Grun, Limor Alpern Zered

The curator’s statement:
In recent years, post-postmodernism has been gaining strength, expressing this generation’s attempt to overcome the postmodernism of the late twentieth century, as a general response to the present, conflict- ridden moment. Post-modernism characterized by irony, pastiche, relativism, and the rejection of major narratives. By contrast, post-postmodernism is concerned with the revival of utopian conceptions of universal truths, as well as with ethical questions, humanism, and their significant relation with the world of culture and art. The new exhibitions will examine the issues involved with this change – such as the future vision of new ways of living, meta-geography and human existence in a polarized space, the return to myth and ancient sources, and more.

Ran Slavin’s video installation at the Haifa Museum of Art is comprised of a number of video sources, electronic, digital, sound, and light objects (the work’s first version was shown at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art earlier this year, curated by Aya Lurie). Together they combine and form a fragmented installment occurring intensively, simultaneously, and repetitively, in a number of locations. The project reflects a technologically, culturally, ethically, and aesthetically complex portrait of the present with respect to time, place, and space. Slavin works with layered digital 3-D animation, reflecting on the experience of our disconnection from natural time. He proposes a technological space and time capsule as a sensorial space, reflecting the virtual-digital age.
The project’s title echoes the common categorization of the world’s countries into “first,” “second,” and “third worlds,” according to parameters such as regime, economy, and technological progress. World 5, Version 2 is a virtual world no longer dependent on representational or photographic strategies. In it, time deviates from the natural order and is no longer dependent on the orbits of the sun and Earth, which determine a 24 hours per day cycle divided hours into light and dark. This world is a binary, uninterrupted one. Multi-screen, fragmented, electricity-dependent, and characterized by technological excess and information. It is spread out in arrays of screens, projections, sound and light objects creating a multi-screen heterotopic arrangement with winding nets, exposed electrical bearings, computerized graphics, light strips and electronic units attached to each other provisionally, with office paper clips.
World 5, Version 2 proposes a contemplation of a flickering, ever-changing space with awe and enchantment. Three -dimensional images of mechanical bodies and ancient landscapes interspersed with abstract multi-layered digital models are placed in landscapes recalling science fiction and virtual aesthetics. This world offers different parallel possibilities, for which there is no structured “proper” course of viewing or understanding. It is a simultaneous, hybrid utopian world, characterized by movement between the physical and the digital with no beginning, middle or end.

World5version2 installation view (detail) Mixed media, video, sound. Haifa Museum of Modern Art 23/7/16-22/1/17
Photos by Stas Korolov
 

 

Bittersweet Melodies Limited CD+Digital listen: 
 

HERZLIYA MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SOLO SHOW
WORLD5 16/1/16 – 30/4/16
Photos by Amit Geron
 

Photos by Amit Geron

UPDATES:

23.7.16 – 22.1.17 – World5version2 Opening at The Haifa Museum of Modern Art.
 
18.6.16 Group screening of “Simulations” a cooperation between Globalscreen and Arc Space, Beijing, China
 
24.5.16 – Opening of a commissioned and permanent video-sound-mirrors installation Installation 24, at the new wing of Beit Hatfutsot Museum in Tel Aviv.
 
18.5.16 – New LP Bittersweet Melodies deep listening launch at Uganda bar, Tel Aviv
 
9.5.16 – 1.7.16 – No Graphics, group show at HIT faculty, Hulon Israel
 

27.4.16 UKRS – [Uri Katzenstein+Ran Slavin]. “2 suits”. A live sound-video show at Bascula club in Tel Aviv/ Ash Art Line production.
 
23.4-5.5 – Universum group show at The International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv
 
19.4.16 – The international release date of my 11th studio album titled Bittersweet Melodies. Printed by Cronica distributed by Materia Prima, promotion by Dense.
 
16.4.16 – Panel and theoretical discussion with Dr Dror K Levi following the apparatus of post production in my body of work and in WORLD5.
 
16.4.16 – UKRS – “2 suits”. A live sound-video show at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art / new project with Uri Katzenstein.


12.4.16 – The electronic music label Cronica from Portugal have reissued my first and third CD releases today.
 

16.1.16 – 30.4.16 – WORLD5 opening a solo show at The Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Aya Lurie

My video Omni Presence participates at the group show curated by Artis: Staring Back at The Sun

It will be exhibited and shown at:

New Museum, New York
February 20-21, 2016, program

Towson University, Baltimore
February 4 – April 3, 2016, exhibition

Casa do Povo, São Paulo
August 2016, program

International House, Philadelphia
November 2016, program

Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
September – November 2016, program

Koffler Gallery, Toronto
November 2017, exhibition

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23.12 – 3.1 Addis Video Art festival, Ethiopia, curated by Sala Manca
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12.11.15 There Is There group exhibition at Start Gallery, Tel Aviv

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22.10.15 EyeVersion2 installation view at Block Club TLV
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3.10.15- 30.9.15 – Video work at Fresh Paint art fair
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26.9.15 – Israeli videoart at Betonbox, Dusseldorf
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13.8.15 – Escalation.mov video-sound installation at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art for one night, curated by Hagit Werner
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National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts [The Return of Ghosts] screening program from July 17 to 19, 2015.
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11.6 LYSISTRATA/X video-stage-performance at Israel Festival
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22.5.15 Video, Sound, Poetry, Music. Hamizkaka, Jerusalem
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30.4.15 Video-light design “Fiber Garden” at Artis Party at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art sculpture garden.

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Ursulimum installation view @NIMAC art centre, Nicosia Cyprus

28.3.15 Ursulimum in group show Recurrence: Rituals, Place & History @ The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Cyprus. Curator- Drorit Gur Arie

 

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12.3.15 – Opening for 1 day only at Art+Hotel with Galaxy Room commission

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5.3.15 “Eye, version 2” installed for 1 night in Tel Aviv @ Barzilay & Duplex Purim Party with Rødhåd / Zadig / Young Marco / Antal / Deep’a & Biri.
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One. The Naomi Aviv book project is out.

Purchase

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An image from my video “Changing Data” is featured on the cover of And Magazine.
More images inside including a weird and blind-fold interview

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December 4th+6th 20:00pm; Souvenirs from Earth will broadcast a selection of my work as part in a special 2 hour screening. Works shown in sequence are: Sequences Identities, The Burger Branch, Ursulimum, Dream Zone 523, Everything Is Urgent, Smoke and Mirrors, The Insomniac City Cycles.
SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH is an international Cable TV station, currently broadcasting in France and Germany, presenting a 24h art program, based on Video art, Film, Visual art, Music, Installations and Performances.
See it live here.

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6-30.11 Ursulimum in Private Nationalism Project , Kalashnikov exhibition in Krakow
http://www.kozelites.hu/index.php/exhibitions
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Exhibition 17.11 Dream Weavers opening at Beit Hatfutsot Tel Aviv.
The exhibition “Dream Weavers” showcases the achievements of the world’s leading Jewish fashion designers. It invites viewers to embark on a journey through a landscape of dream dresses and accessories, celebrating the artistry, creativity and mastery of visionary individuals united by their quest for sublime beauty and luxury.
The exhibition show cases dresses by Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Alber Elbaz, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, Arnold Scassi, Sonia Rykiel, Victoria’s Secret, Nicole Farhi, Ilana Goor, Yigal Azrouel, Avshalom Gur, Kobi Halperin, Avi Tenzer, Inbar Spector, Natalie Capell, threeASFOUR. My part is an exclusive video installation based on video sessions with the designer’s pieces for the space. Curated by Shelly Verthime.
+ Catalogue featuring my photos. 76 pages

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Installation Ghost . Opening 31.10 at the 2014 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition The Return of Ghosts, Hong-Gah Museum, Chew’s Culture Foundation, Taiwan

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January RailCables seasonal compilations featuring new music inspired by travel. Vinyl edition and digital. <

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Bittersweet Melodies CD to be released on Cronica early 2015

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Past:
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6.9-29.9 – Opening at 6.9 at 20:00 with 2 new installations. Scenery2and Untitled at Hansen House Jerusalem part of the exhibition Becoming curated by Sharon Toval:

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11,12,13.9 – Lyzestrata/X premiering at Cultural Centre of Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Athens. A video-Theatre-performance show directed by Emanuela Amichai, video and sound design by me.
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18.9 at 12:30 pm. The Insomniac City Cycles screening and talk at Sadnaot Haamanim, Tel Aviv curated by Eitan Buganim:
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Galaxy Room 309
Is a recently completed permanent artist room at Art Plus Hotel in Tel Aviv. All of the room’s edges have been marked with warm white LED light strips. By highlighting the room’s outlines I was seeking to cancel its borders. In the centre of the space hangs a lamp resembling a dark moon. The white ceiling is punctured with holes giving way to light when the room is dark. The guest/user has 3 options to utilize the room. They can open the “moon” lamp, the wall contours, the “stars” ceiling in separate. Galaxy Room 309 evolved in large from a study of the room’s nuances, especially the light streaks that shone through the venetian blinds and painted laser like lines in the room. I wanted to apply this phenomenon to the rest of the room, to widen the room beyond its given dimensions with the use of light, to turn it into a portal.

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Image still from Ghost
5-19 april 2014 – Ghost and Eyes on You installations at The International Photography Festival, Rishon Leziyon IL curated by Dalia Johananoff Kenneth, Eyal Landesman, Eldad Rafalie

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27.1.2014 – “The Insomniac City Cycles” screening at The Store, Haaliya 31 st, Tel Aviv. 21:00 pm.

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Shredder
29+30.11.2013 – “Shredder” is the title of my new site specific live video-sound installation
at “Raw Beats Festival” at Tmuna Theatre Tel Aviv. I will  use video screening in a spatial format, breaking away from traditional 2d into 3d sculptural space stage

 

http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,778,209,74634,.aspx

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Showing Light
27.11.2013 in celebration of the new release “Showing Light” on False Ind I will perform an intimate

(only 35 seats in the house) live video-sound performance at the “Hanut” Haaliya 31 st Tel Aviv 21:00.

 

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A great review of Showing Light on SWQW
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Interviewed at the 106fm radio studio. A two hour cast

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17:00-23:00 “Room 325 / Iconophilia” group show at Notre Dame centre, Manofim, Jerusalem 

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A new interview published by Secret-Thirteen Online Music+Art Journal

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A new 7 track recordings LP “Showing Light” is out now.  Listen / Buy / Comment

 

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Screening “untitled”+”eye” on a 4 story building (without sound) at Teder tonight (Tel Aviv 28.9.13)

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•  Everything Passage 2. live multimedia event at Pasaz Tel Aviv 16/9  20:00 Pasaz Allenbi, Allenbi 94 st Tel Aviv

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•  Ursulimum will play all night at Uganda Jerusalem. 10/9 21:00-02:00 4 ARISTOBOLUS ST., JERUSALEM

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• Weightless. Multimedia art from Israel in Hanover. 05.09.2013 – 20.10.2013 / Kunsthalle Faust / Hannover. Having a live video sound performance at the opening at the parallel exhibition building “Crossings”.

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31.8.2013
•  The Dark Outside: Saturday August 31, 12pm – Sunday September 1, 12pm. Murrays Monument, The Galloway Forest, Scotland
A new unreleased track is played in a forest in Scotland to no one.

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•  “Everything Passage” a live video-sound performance-installation with 6 beamers happening on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 8:30pm until 10:00pm, Passage Allenbi 94 Tel Aviv

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•  Documentation from “Ghost” and “Eyes on You” installations at Hansen House, The Lepers Colony Jerusalem, in collaboration with L-E-V, Sharon Eyal and Guy Behar, Israel Festival 2013:

 

• “Housen” New video light and sound installations at the Lepers Colony in Jerusalem with L-E-V dance group [Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar] at the Israel Festival Jerusalem, 28.5-8.6. 2 performances daily. For times visit the program here: http://www.israel-festival.org.il/2010/?module=ShowPage&cat=1&show=397
Teaser here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ClLXmWYAzg
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•  Smoke and Mirrors at Rencontres Internationales in Berlin, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Wednesday June 26 – 7PM

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•  Larger Then Love / Installation with Soundtrack w/ Shony Rivnai.  New immersive sound installation curated by Tim Goossens at TEMP gallery next week 10.5.2013 opening in conjunction with Frieze Art Fair NYC

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•  2010 Solo event at The Sculpture Garden of The Tel Aviv Museum of Art,