VideoTruck city art project

Video-Truck is an art project, established during the Covid19 lockdown. We travel the city and project video art on the urban facades. During this era, we are constantly reshaping our public spaces, learning to act in them differently from what we once knew.

George  Perec’s idea of a Wall, questions poetically the physicality and meaning of our private boundaries:

Walls/ George Perec

I put a picture up on a wall. Then I forget there is a wall. I no longer know what there is behind this wall, I no longer know there is a wall, I no longer know this wall is a wall, I no longer know what a wall is. I no longer know that in my apartment there are walls and that if there weren’t any walls, there would be no apartment. The wall is no longer what delimits and defines the place where I live, that which separates it from the other places where other people live, it is nothing more than a support for the picture. But I also forget the picture, I no longer look at it, I no longer know how to look at it. I have put the picture on the wall; I forget the picture, too. There are pictures because there are walls. But walls kill pictures. So we need continually to be changing, either the wall or the picture, to be forever putting other pictures up on walls, or else constantly moving the picture from one wall to another.
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We could write on walls (as we sometimes write on the fronts of houses, or fences round building sites and on the walls of prisons), but we do it only very rarely.

*Perec Georges, “The Apartment”, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces( Penguin Classics, London, 2008), P.39.

Through 5 videos of   private/ public spaces we try to dismantle the fluid border of the city and the home. Each video refers to a different element such as wall, door, window, staircase and rooftop.

Video Truck: Lila Chitayat

Co-curator: Ruth Oppenheim

Artists: Sigalit Landau, Inbal Timor, Yael Frank, Alma Shneor, Hinda Weiss

Amir Zuk, Doron Screens

The project was part of the ‘Escape Strategies Festival’ of Tel Aviv municipality and Rabinovich Foundation curated by: Dafna Kron, Renana Raz, Merav Perez