• Rakonto Kun 4

    Rakonto Kun is a new full evening piece for three dancers with the participation of its creators. It was commissioned by CCA Tel Aviv, as part of the Exhibition “Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof: Works” and premiered in November 2019. The piece is set for a room, with the audience sitting along the four walls in close proximity to the performers. Rakonto Kun takes place somewhere in the fantasy territory of ethnographic fiction. Spoken and sung, the texts in Rakonto Kun are in Esperanto, the utopian international language developed by L.L Zamenhof in the late 19th Century. The live soundtrack, composed and performed by Ohad Fishof, is typically central to the unique performative realm of dance, sound and performance art that characterizes the duo’s work.

    Rakonto Kun stands at the center of “Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof: Works”, an exhibition curated by Nicola Trezzi for CCA Tel Aviv. The exhibition presents different aspects of the duo’s work, including a retrospective of their videos and a series of events curated by the artists.

    https://cca.org.il/noa-zuk-ohad-fishof-works/

    Next performances: February 2020, CCA TA.

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    Noa Zuk & Ohad Fishof: Works, is a duo exhibition, a retrospective of video work created over the last 15 years, curated by Nicola Trezzi. It is one of the components in a larger constellation which includes a new dance work premiered at the CCA in November 2019 and a series of public evens curated by the artists. September 21 – December 7 2019, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

    https://cca.org.il/noa-zuk-ohad-fishof-works/

     

     

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    “Album 1″ is out now on Entr’acte. It is available on vinyl or CD

    https://entracte.co.uk/projects/ohad-fishof-e239/

     

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    The Body (object) and The Founder (video) are presented as part of the group exhibition The Larva Society For Physical Research at Jerusalem Artist’s House (photo: Installation view)

    http://larvaspr.com/?lang=en

     

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    The Talking Stick is Learning Hebrew is a full evening, new solo performance piece. Commissioned by Print Screen Festival, it will be premiered on October 31 2018. https://www.english.printscreenfestival.com/the-talking-stick-learns-hebrew

     

    פקטורי-21-900x600performing in a trio with Ishai Adar & Binya Reches in memory of our beloved friend and collaborator Uri Katzenstein, at the opening of his exhibition The Institute of Ongoing Things, at The Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam (30.9.18).

     

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  • 32769724_10156569661557189_875281847792173056_n 32807542_10156569661792189_7587529889863958528_oSHUTDOWN, a new piece by Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof for Wee Dance Company, Gorlitz, Germany, to be premiered on 19 may 2018.

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    The Burnt Room will be performed as part of 2018 Tectonics Festival in Glasgow in May. Details:http://www.tectonicsfestival.com/glasgow/schedule/the-burnt-room

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    On 21 December 2017 Ohad Fishof and writer Assaf Gavron will talk about their year long joint artist residency In Mishkanot Shaananim in Jerusalem, and share some of its products. Details: http://mishkenot.org.il/events/יומן-2017/?lang=en

  • Hula

    “American Hula”, a new video work, is included in the project “24:7” and will be screened for two weeks on a billboard at the corner of 41st St and Broadway (10 Times Square), NYC, starting on Monday 5 December 2017.
    www.zaz10ts.com

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Ohad Fishof is an interdisciplinary artist, working in a diverse range of fields including dance, sound, performance, video and installation. He began his artistic career as lead singer and writer with the pioneering Israeli art-pop band Nosei Hamigbaat. He later moved to compose music for dance, performance and art installations while at the same time, expanding his artistic endeavors to other media. In 1997 he received an MA in Dance from Laban Center London. He spent the following years creating dance and performance pieces as well as sound and video installations in London, where he was then based. Home, His performance collaboration with artist Uri Katzenstein, was presented as part of the 2001 Venice Biennial.   Over the last twenty years, Fishof has been consistently expanding his ever-growing body of work – a difficult-to-categorize continuum of idiosyncratic time-based art, ranging from live music to site-specific performance work, video, installations and dance pieces.   In 2005 he performed in London A Slow Walk for Longplayer, a performance work commissioned by Artangel. In 2006 he created the multimedia piece SU in Tokyo, in collaboration with Japanese artist Uzo Ishiyama. In 2007 he formed Bney Hama with fellow musician Ishai Adar - an electronic avant-pop duo in which he played circuit bent instruments and sang. His installation and performance project Memo was one of the highlights of Art TLV 2008, Tel-Aviv's first Art biennial. In the same year Fishof was named Chosen Artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation. In 2010 he presented the installation The Sauna at The Petach-Tikva Museum and was granted a visiting artist residency at the Department of Dance in Ohio State University (he returned to OSU for additional residentcy periods). His short film Abduction won first prize for Best Experimental Film at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2011. In 2012 he premiered the audio-visual solo performance A Lecture on Architecture and performed it in Israel, Japan and The USA; And won the Ministry of Culture Award. In 2013 he presented The  Duck, a light, text and sound installation in Ashdod museum; Slow Walk Rothschild, a short film documenting a performance piece created during the social uprise in Israel in 2011; And the short film, Nothing.   During  those years, Fishof began making work in collaboration with his life partner, choreographer and dancer Noa Zuk. Their first work together, the dance video One More Song, was presented in many exhibitions and screenings worldwide. They went on to create numerous works for the screen and for the stage: The Nothing trilogy, presented in The U.S.A, Russia, Canada and Israel; An Old Woman Picking up a Stone From The Ground and Carrying it Back to Her House for Fronteir Danceland (Singapore); The quartet Garden of Minutes, premiered as part of Curtain’s Up Festival in Tel Aviv; And the Video work ADR.   In 2016 the two created The Burnt Room. The piece was commissioned by n.b.k Berlin and The Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv and toured Israel, Germany, Italy and Scotland, where it was performed as part of BBC Scottish symphony Orchestra’s Tectonics Festival. In 2017 Zuk & Fishof created 3 Traditional Dances, commissioned by Baerum Kulturhus in Sandvika, Norway. Their most recent Work, Shutdown, was commissioned and premiered by Germany’s Wee Dance Company.   Fishof’s solo performance evening, a double bill that included his performance work HD, was premiered as part of Print Screen New Media Festival in 2014 and later presented as part of Batsheva Dance Company Hosts season as well as in the Tel Aviv Museum. Fishof’s Most  Recent full evening solo performance work, The Talking stick is Learning Hebrew, was premiered in 2018 (Print Screen Festival). His recent music collaborations include his improvisation duo with conductor and musician Ilan Volkov. "Album 1", A Solo album of his music, was released in 2019 by Antwerp’s Entr’acte Records.   Fishof is a long-term collaborator of Batsheva Dance Company and its artistic director Ohad Naharin. He designed the soundtracks for Naharin’s Three, Max, Seder, Furo and Telophaza, and served as a dramaturge for the latter, as well as for Naharin's solo evening Playback, where he acted as musical director. Fishof is also a senior teacher of Naharin's Gaga movement language, and had taught Gaga classes and workshops worldwide.   Fishof lives and works in Tel Aviv. He teaches at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and and at Hamidrasha Faculty for the Arts in Beit Berl College.