Lital Dotan Performance Art
The work of Lital Dotan spans over more than two decades of performance in the expanded field. Trained in photography, theater and sculpture her works often respond to socio-political themes through interventions in protests and sites of turbulence, to later take the form of video installations and sculptures for performance. The majority of her work is in the field of performance art, her platform for cultural and social research as well as physical and emotional inquiry into the body as site.
Major themes in her art such as critique of power mechanisms, migration, cultural memory, the role of audience or the archive in performance are weaved throughout her work, either ongoing or reappearing alongside a symbolic vocabulary comprised of bones, hallah bread, thorns, hair brush or fabric, often cast with ice as transient human remains. Read more
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FEATURED PROJECT
Comb My Hair (performance sculpture, 2022)
ice, hair
“For thousands of years ice was used to preserve humanity, I use ice to preserve humanness, leaving traces that could teach future generations what it felt like to be human- what intimacy looks like, how fear or pain or loss feel like. ”
The Sound of Not Moving (video performance 2021)
Books & Publications
Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry. Glasshouse: In Retrospective (Tel Aviv: Glasshouse Matters, 2011), fully illustrated monograph, 368 pages,
Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry. 7 Invitations: Hosted by Lital Dotan & Eyal Perry (New York: Glasshouse Matters, 2014), b/w illustrations, 76 pages,