Daphna Ben-Shaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 2227991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daphna Ben-Shaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daphna |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Shaul |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-SHAUL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9332-8141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performing civic spheres
Demonstrating against the violation of democratic values, the Balfour Protest in Israel, practiced for almost a year during 2020–21, took the form of an intense aesthetic-political performance. This article explores its circumstances, dynamics, and nature while focusing on live performance. The protest's public appearance was characterized by repetitive sensorial traits that formed the ground for heightened performativity in which the distinction…
Hyphenated Performance On-Site
This article contextualises and explores participatory site-specific walking performances created for the ‘hyphenated’ area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Israel – nowadays a space of trade and recreation, and which before the 1948 war was Manshiya, the northern quarter of Jaffa. In correlation with geopolitical hyphenation implemented through annexation and control, we suggest the concept of hyphenated performance. The performance embodies the ur…
Abyssal Choreography
This article explores the cultural figure of the ropedancer and focuses on the influential performance of Philippe Petit in two of his walks. The high-wire walker plays a significant role discussed within three frameworks: a philosophical and urban discussion offering interwoven perspectives; the iconic walk at the World Trade Center in New York in 1974; and Petit's high-wire crossing performed in Jerusalem's geopolitical context in 1987. Ropedan…
Socio-metaphysical void
Yves Klein’s conceptual project Theatre of the Void is associated with two well-known works: the single appearance of the newspaper Dimanche, which Klein published on 27 November 1960 with a declaration that the world is voided for twenty-four hours; and the iconic image Leap into the Void, which appears in it for the first time. This article reframes the project—by offering an inclusive, structural, and theoretically contextualized reading of it…
Interrupted Authority
Interpreting the model of the epic theatre in 1939, Walter Benjamin introduced the practice of 'the quotable gesture' that involves the interruption of its context. This article explores the phenomenon of turning the foundation scene of a nation state into a quotable gesture given to interruptions while attributing it to the Israeli context. The main practice of re-performing the declarative foundation scene is substitution of original components…
Performance art at the campusphere
Following a unique practice and research laboratory entitled Performance: Site/Self that took place in 2013–2015, this article discusses the implementation of performance art at an academic site – the Tel Aviv University campus. This pedagogical and artistic initiative, characterised by the transgressive pedagogy of performance art applied to site-specific performance, broadens the site’s primary educational function and reframes it as a relation…
A Home Unfound
A Home Unfound:The Political Modeling of the Domestic Performance Daphna Ben-Shaul (bio) This essay engages with domestic performances—that is, works performed in private homes—to explore the notion of domesticity within a political context, specifically in Israel. As a form of site-specific performance, domestic performance usually shifts among different modes of realization, which may include situating performance in a hosting house (whether au…
Performing civic spheres
Demonstrating against the violation of democratic values, the Balfour Protest in Israel, practiced for almost a year during 2020–21, took the form of an intense aesthetic-political performance. This article explores its circumstances, dynamics, and nature while focusing on live performance. The protest's public appearance was characterized by repetitive sensorial traits that formed the ground for heightened performativity in which the distinction…
A Home Unfound
A Home Unfound:The Political Modeling of the Domestic Performance Daphna Ben-Shaul (bio) This essay engages with domestic performances—that is, works performed in private homes—to explore the notion of domesticity within a political context, specifically in Israel. As a form of site-specific performance, domestic performance usually shifts among different modes of realization, which may include situating performance in a hosting house (whether au…
A Home Unfound
A Home Unfound:The Political Modeling of the Domestic Performance Daphna Ben-Shaul (bio) This essay engages with domestic performances—that is, works performed in private homes—to explore the notion of domesticity within a political context, specifically in Israel. As a form of site-specific performance, domestic performance usually shifts among different modes of realization, which may include situating performance in a hosting house (whether au…
Performance art at the campusphere
Following a unique practice and research laboratory entitled Performance: Site/Self that took place in 2013–2015, this article discusses the implementation of performance art at an academic site – the Tel Aviv University campus. This pedagogical and artistic initiative, characterised by the transgressive pedagogy of performance art applied to site-specific performance, broadens the site’s primary educational function and reframes it as a relation…
Interrupted Authority
Interpreting the model of the epic theatre in 1939, Walter Benjamin introduced the practice of 'the quotable gesture' that involves the interruption of its context. This article explores the phenomenon of turning the foundation scene of a nation state into a quotable gesture given to interruptions while attributing it to the Israeli context. The main practice of re-performing the declarative foundation scene is substitution of original components…
Socio-metaphysical void
Yves Klein’s conceptual project Theatre of the Void is associated with two well-known works: the single appearance of the newspaper Dimanche, which Klein published on 27 November 1960 with a declaration that the world is voided for twenty-four hours; and the iconic image Leap into the Void, which appears in it for the first time. This article reframes the project—by offering an inclusive, structural, and theoretically contextualized reading of it…
Hyphenated Performance On-Site
This article contextualises and explores participatory site-specific walking performances created for the ‘hyphenated’ area between Tel Aviv and Jaffa in Israel – nowadays a space of trade and recreation, and which before the 1948 war was Manshiya, the northern quarter of Jaffa. In correlation with geopolitical hyphenation implemented through annexation and control, we suggest the concept of hyphenated performance. The performance embodies the ur…
Abyssal Choreography
This article explores the cultural figure of the ropedancer and focuses on the influential performance of Philippe Petit in two of his walks. The high-wire walker plays a significant role discussed within three frameworks: a philosophical and urban discussion offering interwoven perspectives; the iconic walk at the World Trade Center in New York in 1974; and Petit's high-wire crossing performed in Jerusalem's geopolitical context in 1987. Ropedan…
Performing civic spheres
Demonstrating against the violation of democratic values, the Balfour Protest in Israel, practiced for almost a year during 2020–21, took the form of an intense aesthetic-political performance. This article explores its circumstances, dynamics, and nature while focusing on live performance. The protest's public appearance was characterized by repetitive sensorial traits that formed the ground for heightened performativity in which the distinction…
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