The Window of I and Thou / The Mouse Trap

Next month I will be performing my new project ‘It Means Mischief’ at the CSSD Brink Festival in London. It is a live art installation based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  At the heart of this installation will be a device based on my work from the previous term entitled ‘The Window of I and Thou”. What you see before you is a test on which I will base the live aspect of my installation. It is a plain glass window which allows you to merge your own reflection with that of the person sitting across from you, by the use of LED lights.

The Window of I and Thou / The Mouse Trap

 

Laika – an upcoming performance in Bat Yam and a new video clip

Our next performance will be held on August 11th, in an old diamond polishing plant in Bat Yam, that has been un-used these past 20 years. I will be uploading images of the performance space tomorrow, but for now, here’s a new video clip we made of Laika’s previous performance in Yafo 23.

Laika – Eulogies and Prophecies premiers on March 17th – 19th

New addition to the family – The Vacanti mouse

The new Vacanti mouse puppet is ready. I couldn’t resist taking a picture of it and posting it even though the camera on my laptop isn’t very good.

This wonderful puppet was made by Moran Sanderovich and it will join Laika on our next performance in March.

For more about “Laika – Eulogies and prophecies” visit the “Laika in Progress” section of this blog and “Building a manual time machine”

LAIKA IN PROGRESS

Hey everyone!
I’ve decided to revive and update this blog a bit. Last week we performed parts of the new chapter of “LAIKA – Eulogies and Prophecies” at the Yafo 23 gallery in Jerusalem, and I’d like to start sharing a few clips and images of the work as it progresses. It’s going to take me about a week to prepare everything. I’ve already put up a “Laika in Progress” page with a few images which you can peak at it through here: Laika in Progress
Also, the most excellent musician we’re working with, Ran Nahmias, has created this blog for our project. It’s got images, videos and sound clips. So here’s the link :
http://www.wix.com/laikagalactic/site

Happy new year!

L.

 

Laika 1: Eulogies and prophecies

The is the first part in a series of works featuring the famous dog Laika who traveled to space on Sputnik 2 in 1957. The second part called “The Seance – The Medium is the Message” is currently in production, and will be out in March 2010. I’ll be writing about this project quite a bit, so I’ll just credit this quickly for now:
Created by Lior Lerman with Jonathan Shohet and Saray Levin, Tchelet Weisstub, Shahaf Bornstein, Jonathan Albalak, Michael Berkowitz and Ayelet Lerman.

The Enchanter

I’ll soon publish a subtitled version of this so that those of you who don’t speak Hebrew will know what this is about. Based on the story of the Pied Piper, this site specific performance was made to tell the story of the neighborhood Yemin Moshe in Jerusalem.Created by Jonathan Shohet, Lior Lerman and Saray Levin with Giory Politi. Performed by Nori Yaacoby / Ayelet Lerman. Performed at the International Puppet Theater Festival, Jerusalem 2008.

Helena

Originally intended to be a bloody horror Show, this romantic and fragile story about a painter and his muse was my graduating project in the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem. When asked to describe this performance I tell people that it’s really a film with a live show in front of it and a shadow play behind it. It is performed by Yoel Ron and Tchelet Weisstub. The amazing score was generously given by composer Aviya Kopelman (For whom we created this website). The stage lighting was designed by my sister Ayelet Lerman who also produced the project. The beautiful stop motion sequences were created by my husband, Jonathan Shohet and myself. This performance is in the “Stage Song” festival, in Wroclaw, Poland 2008.

“Paper Cut”

This is a performance I did with brilliant actress/puppeteer Yael Rasooly. It was created for and performed at the International Puppet Theater Festival, Jerusalem, August 2009.

Pierrot Lunaire

2008

Directed by Julia Pevsner, Video art by Jonathan Shohet and Lior Lerman with Noa Schwartz and Koby Barchad.