Lital Dotan Biography
About the performance art works of Lital Dotan
Lital Dotan is a visual artist, curator and scholar based in New York. Her work portrays a phenomenology of embodied art, utilizing multiple disciplines including live performance, video, installation and playwriting.
She is the co-founder and artistic director of Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, an art-house currently based in Upstate NY. Co-founded with Eyal Perry in 2007, Glasshouse is an environment dedicated to performance in the domestic sphere, where she organizes and produces festivals, thematic exhibitions, durational performances, collaborations and residencies.
In 2015 Dotan founded Que sal mah, a clothing brand that merges performance art, choreography and fashion, where clients book a one-to-one performance session culminating in a dress.
Her immersive art works and performances are exhibited in rural farms, deserted barns, ruins, as well as museums and galleries. Prior to intentionally focusing on unmediated encounters with the public, Dotan’s works were exhibited in institutions such as the Israel Museum, National Museum Cracow, Queens Museum, Haifa Museum, Jewish Contemporary SF to name a few and featured in media outlets such as the NY Times, Hyperallergic, DNA Info, NY Mag, Paper Mag, ArtSlant, Haaretz, Huffington Post, VISION China, TAR Magazine and many more.
Since early in her artistic career, she collaborates with photographer Eyal Perry who is responsible for the photography in the majority of her work.
An integration of installation, documentation and life her performance narratives examine structures and mechanisms across art and society; dissolving and re-imagining through harsh intimacy notions of privacy, audience, ownership, value and success.
“I grew up in the Negev Desert, our house close to the edge of the quiet village, across from the transient tents of a nomadic Bedouin settlement. My father immigrated from Tunisia, and is part of a lineage of North African Rabbinic Jews; my mother, secular, is a daughter to holocaust survivors. Each morning the call for prayer of the local Muezzin and the roosters crowing would mark my night’s end. Now I am myself an immigrant, contemplating the complexity in which identity is built upon, in which culture is built upon, witnessing the ongoing sculpting and spreading of narratives like wind on a ruin. As a cultural maker I embody this hybridity in which culture operates, intersects and relates.
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Dotan published two books- The Glasshouse In Retrospective (2011) and '7 Invitations' (2014). In 2016, her essay about performance ecology in NY was published in TAR magazine, hosting artists, curators and organizers who are actively providing platforms for performance in New York, including Aunts, Franklin Furnace's Martha Wilson, The New Museum's Travis Chamberlain, PPL's Esther Neff and many more. Her most recent book ‘The Case of Second Floor: An Anatomy of Performance and The Invitation of Aggression’ is set to be published in Fall 2024’.
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