Everything Is Urgent
Video installation HD, 4:22 min, PAL, 4:3, color, sound, 2009
Projection or 4 monitors
Living in Israel often means inhabiting a constant state of tension — a cultural melting pot where anxiety, stress, and urgency saturate the air. In this climate, where everything is urgent, the video work “Everything is Urgent” stages a raw confrontation. Human characters appear before the camera, stepping out of darkness into light, yet their voices have been stripped away and replaced with jarring dog barks. Each bark has been carefully synchronized to its figure until it becomes disturbingly personal, almost intimate.
What emerges is an antagonistic encounter: the viewer is left to navigate a dissonant reality where familiar human language has collapsed into animalistic growls. This violent hybridization of sound and image reflects a society where urgency overrides reason, and where communication itself teeters between breakdown and aggression.
Participating: Mami Shimazaki, Yuval Robichek, Yeara Moses, Guy behar
