During the Book fair, 30 years
ago, on June 1983, Natan Karczmar organized Mivne Maga on the terrace
of Kikar Rabin. It was an installation with many games of
communication. Among them, there were 24 telephones on 12 tables
arranged in half a circle and the public was invited to use them free
of charge. The operator was deciding to connect whom with whom and the
game was to find out with whom you were talking. There was also an
exhibition of 105 photographs on the themes of smiling, winking, and
grimacing. The public was invited to participate and similarly make
funny faces. Following that, Mivne Maga was invited at Bet Rothschild
in Haifa and at the Acco theater festival that year.
Unexpectedly, Mivne Maga changed Natan’s life. He was invited to
join the international group of Aesthetic’s of Communication
which brought together artists and theoreticians who used new
technologies to organize networking, installations and performances.
In 1984, he organized the symposium ARTCOM ISRAEL 84 together
with Israel Museum in Jerusalem, the Haifa Museum and Tzavta in Tel
Aviv. At this occasion he created the first videocollective by inviting
video makers to film a 10 minutes sequence on their city or environment
and starting on a cue given by Kol Israel.
Since then, Natan has been organizing other symposiums,
videocollectives, communication events, installations and directed
seminars. In 2002, the international festival Videoformes in
Clermont-Ferrrand invited him to be a permanent partner and the
videocollectives filmed around the world are presented there every year.
This year, Videoformes presented also the installation FunFace showing
the Mivne Maga photographies from 30 years ago and they invited the
Clermont-Ferrand public to participate and be photographed smiling and
making faces, the result was shown on monitors and presented on
Internet on
www.funface.co
At the occasion of The 7TH Jaffa International Children Theater
Festival, which will take place between the 26-28 of September at The
Jaffa Theatre - The Hebrew-Arab Center will present a
FunFace event and invites both children and adults to participate to
the game.
FunFace opening hours:
26.9.2013: 12:00-13:00 14:00-15:30
28.9.2013: 10:00-11:00 12:00-13:00 14:00-15:00
FREE ENTRANCE
Their photographs will be later shown on Internet and the public at
large may also participate by sending 3 pictures through their phones
at
funphoto@funface.co
At the time Natan organized Mivne Maga, he was a member of the artist
communities in Jaffa and Sfat and active as a painter and photographer.
Previously, he founded and managed the Canadian Museum of Film on art
and le Centre Canadien d’Essai in Montreal, a workshop theater
where he produced 100 shows presenting mainly one act plays, modern
dance, poetry readings and chamber music as well as the Salon for young
painters, sculptors and graphic artists.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natan_Karczmar