Public Movement: 5th Anniversary Day of Celebration at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

5th Anniversary of Public Movement
Schedule for the Day of Celebration: Conference, Ceremony and Party
29 December 2011
Tel Aviv Museum of Art

17:00 'Art, Action, Politics' Conference
Recanati Auditorium, Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Are art and politics separate spheres of activity, or is there an overlap between them? Can a political act be regarded as a work of art and vice-versa? How can artists spark political imaginations, design public space, and influence the actual world? To what extent do artists bear responsibility for engineering the image and the content of a state? What is the role of an artist in the physical and spiritual space in which they live? Who, or what, is the state artist? What is the optimal, desirable, material relationship between an artist and a state; between artistic practice and national project?

Symposium
Dr. Ariella Azulay Professor of Visual Culture and Political Philosophy, curator
Dr. Dror Eidar Literature, Culture and Society scholar. Journalist at the "Israel Hayom" [Israel Today] daily
Yonatan Amir Art critic and co-editor of "Erev-Rav" - An online art and culture magazine
David Tartakover Artist, Graphic Designer, Israel Prize Laureate
Avi Pitchon Writer, curator, NSK State Congressman
Assaf Sagiv Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal "Azure: Ideas for the Jewish Nation (Tchelet)" and a researcher at the Shalem Center

Video Interview
Mr. Harald Kurzer Spokesman of Heidelberg police, Germany

Lectures
Dr. Daphna Ben Shaul Professor at the Department of the Theatre Arts and at the Interdisciplinary Program in the Arts, Tel Aviv University
Mr. Steven Ten Thije Research Curator at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Teaches philosophy at the University of Hildesheim, Germany and at the Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam

21:00 Public Movement official ceremony 'Also Thus!'
Tel Aviv Museum Square

23:00 Party - at Har Sinai

About Public Movement
Public Movement is a performative research body that investigates and stages political actions in public spaces. The movement explores the political and aesthetic possibilities residing in a group of people acting together. It studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity. Public Movement was founded in November 2006 by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi, who led it together until August 2011. The movement is currently led by Yahalomi. Public Movement has taken responsibility for the following actions: Accident (2006), Ceremony (2007), The Israel Museum (2007), Also Thus! (Acco, 2007), Rally (Rabin Square, 2007), Operation Free Holon, Change of Guard (With Dani Karavan, Tel-Aviv Museum of Art), Public Movement House (MoBY, Bat-Yam Museum of Art), The 86th Anniversary of the assassination of president Gabriel Narutowicz by the painter Eligiusz Niewiadomski (National Gallery of Art Zacheta, Warsaw), Spring in Warsaw (2009), Performing Politics for Germany (2010), University Exercise (Heidelberg, 2010), Exercise in Citizenship (Tel-Aviv University, 2010), Where to? (Holon, 2011), Positions with Occupy Wall Street (New York, November 2011) and The Reenactment of the Mount Herzl Terrorist Attack (Upcoming).