Limbus: A Performative Event Celebrating the Closing of Nonfinito

A horse is standing behind a screen, with the image of a woman looking back. On the horse’s back rides a headless horseman. The horse, which is also a tent and a dress, sings a polyphonic composition. The song is an imaginary conversation between the horse and the lonely rider—a guardian—a fallen warrior perched upon the horse’s back.
On the front of the screen—locks and bolts mimic the dress of a woman, her gaze turned backward, looking at the horse yet unable to see it. The screen divides and splits the space into two: front and back, visible and hidden, real and imagined, life and death.

Join us for a closing event of the NonFinito exhibition, and experience the new collaborative work by Shahar Yahalom, Zohar Shapir, Ana Wild, and Ruti De Vries.

Thursday, December 5th, at 8:00 PM

One Day: A performance featuring Alma Goldshmidt, Kim Teitelbaum, and Haim Vitali
Inspired by Asaf Elkalai’s sculpture “Concrete Figure” in the exhibition Nonfinito

One Day is a musical piece based on the story The Heart and the Fountain by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The story text appears as told in the play The Dybbuk: Between Two Worlds by S. Ansky (translated by H. N. Bialik). It is read, deconstructed, and sung by Alma Goldshmidt and Kim Teitelbaum to the musical composition of Haim Vitali, embodying a shared yearning between complementary opposites for one more day.

The piece is presented as part of the Nonfinito exhibition by Artport’s residency program alumn, commissioned by Asaf Elkalai and inspired by his sculpture “Concrete Figure,” placed in the exhibition space and performance area.

Protagonist 
Sharon Zuckerman Weiser, accompanied by Nevo Romano’s violin, brings to life Uri Zamir’s work “Act One”

On a long clothing rack, theatrical props hang side by side, all waiting for a hand to grasp them and bring them to life, for a story to wrap around them—and us within it.
Sharon Zuckerman Weiser, with musical accompaniment by Nevo Romano, activates each prop in turn, releasing them from their status as mere objects and transforming them into a significant part of the narrative of life.

Saturday, November 16, at 7:00 PM and 9 pm

Live Podcast
Potot in the Salon: Remedios Varo with artist Esther Schneider

“Potot” is the only female-centered Hebrew-language podcast dedicated to exploring women’s art with women artists. Through biographical and astrological research, Riky Elkayam and More Suns revisit historical developments in women’s creative endeavors by focusing on a single artist in each episode. Together with a rotating local artist, the podcast conversation presents insights and invites us to reexamine phenomena around us. “Potot” calls us to seek answers from figures of the past, moving toward our future in the present time.

As part of Nonfinito, we will meet with artist Ester Shneider for a live episode. Together, we will bring to life the figure of Remedios Varo, a surrealist artist who lived in Mexico in the past century—a mystical artist who, in a short period, created fascinating, mysterious paintings. We will examine the connection to Esther’s works currently on display in the exhibition and understand why she chose to focus on the character of artist Remedios Varo.

Thursday, November 21, 2024, at 8 pm

Guided Intentions: A Tour and Conversation with Artists Moshe Roas and Miri Segal

Thursday, November 28th, at 7:00 PM

NonFinito 2024, the year end exhibition of Artport’s annual residency program, which began in October 2023 and concludes these days, presents new projects and ideas that have sprouted in the six studios on the two floors above the gallery. As part of the exhibition, we will hold several guided art tours and events:

Uri Zamir‘s props encapsulate the ability to advance the plot, to control the course of the play and change it; the materials in Moshe Roas’s sculptures transform and assume new qualities, yet maintain a delicate tension and a fine balance that hold everything together; Tal Alperstein shifts the focus to the marginal characters in the computer quest game that she places in reality; Asaf Elkalai extracts the search arrows from the computer screen, furnishing them with a tangible presence in the real world; in Ruti de Vries‘s fabric works, figures lean on one another and support each other, exploring their ability to separate and reintegrate into a group; Ester Schneider‘s therapeutic forms evolve from a desire to return to the primal perfection for which we all yearn.

The tours will be held in Hebrew.

When the sun set the howls begin, this is the singing of the Golden Jackals. They welcome the moon that symbolise the beginning of another day in their urban life.

The Synanthrope Preserve invites you to walk in the paths of the urban wild life that inhabits Ganei Yehoshua Park (Yarkon Park). Hopefully, we are going to encounter one of the marvelous creatures that had returned to the park after years of exile – the Golden Jackal.

“Golden Howls” is an audio and AR journey through the Ganei Yehoshua Park (Yarkon Park). Participants are welcome to listen on their cellphones to a walk in the footsteps of the jackals and their cubs, follow in the footsteps of the Egyptian jackal “Anubis” and observe the various meeting points of man and wildlife, living around the park.

Through a designated app, in a 50-minute tour, participants will observe the park like they have never before. Viewed from their phone screen, they will discover more layers in the park’s story and the animals that inhabit it.

Gal Nissim creates urban interventions – her artistic actions interfere with the web of life in the city while trying to intervene and change the viewer’s perspective. Golden Howls is part of the Synthropical Reserve project that began in New York and follows synthropical animals – animals that live amongst man and thrive by being close to him, especially by his garbage. The project has so far included tours following raccoons in Central Park, following rats in Tompkins Square Park, and following pigeons in Washington Square Park.

While technology often distances us from the environment surrounding us, Nissim uses technology to bring us closer to nature and understand it in different ways. The path following the jackals in Golden Howls reminds us that one does not have to move away from the city to encounter the wild nature that surrounds, and that the city limits, like our affectionate limits to certain animals, are purely artificial. No more real than the artificial lake unfolding before us in the park, no more realistic than the augmented reality picture revealed to us on screen.

In the past year, Artport has started operating in the public space, first in projects around Artport’s building – “Wall Piece” by Dor Zlekha Levy, which was projected on a building on Ha’amal Street, and “In a Nutshell” by Yael Frank – a sculpture of a palm tree falling from the roof of Artport. “Golden Howls” is Artport’s first project taking place in a public space that does not surround its building, and is part of a broader intention to continue operating in other areas throughout the city.

Starting point:
Meeting point at the Sailing Lake plaza (in the northwest corner), Ganei Yehoshua, Tel Aviv

The tour:
The tour is a personal tour of each participant individually, and includes a 50-minute walk according to the instructions that will be heard by each participant’s headphones, through the app that will be downloaded to his or her phone device.

The tour is recommended for children aged 12 and up.

When asked to go up the stairs, there is an accessible path on the left that reaches the same point.

App details:
It is recommended to download the app in advance from the app stores or use the Web App (does not support AR). Please arrive with a charged headset and smartphone.
Download links:

Recommended times:
It is recommended to start the tour about an hour before sunset (around 18:30 in the summer months and 17:00 in the winter months). Check out sunset times.

Directions and parking:
For those with vehicles, a recommended parking:
Ganei Yehoshua parking lot, Rokach 94, Tel Aviv-Yafo (Ahuzat HaHof parking lot). From there walk the main path of the park heading south to the lake.
Ganei Yehoshua Park (Yarkon Park) – kurkar parking lot, entrance from Rokach Street, Ramat Gan, number 74 (free parking). From there walk through seven mills towards the northwest corner of the lake.

How to get to Ganei Yehoshua Park in Tel Aviv-Yafo, via public transportation:
Buses: 278, 44, 47, 48, 57
Israel Railways: Ashkelon – Netanya line, Beer Sheva Central line – Kfar Saba, Beit Shemesh – Netanya line, Binyamina – Rehovot line, Herzliya – Jerusalem / Yitzhak Navon line.

The project is presented by Artport, and is done with the generous support of Mifal Hapayis, Asylum Arts, and Ganei Yehoshua (Yarkon Park).