© idit elia nathan
Following twelve years as a theatre practitioner (working as scenographer), my current visual practice is often playful and interactive. I have shown work in the UK, Europe and Israel Palestine.
My works create a provocative space in which the viewer is challenged to respond to the unsettling contemporary dilemmas derived from our identity as both actors of free will and actors in an historical context focusing on coexistence and tensions between past and present, the gallery and ‘non gallery’ space and the activity and interactivity of the audiences that inhabit these spaces.
I founded Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination in 2002, and between 2005 and 2008 I returned to Jerusalem, where I grew up, and curated exhibitions for MachsomWatch (An all women organisation protesting against the occupation of Palestine and reporting human rights abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territories) alongside developing my own practice.
I am currently a practice led research student at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, where my project explores playful and interactive artworks in the context of conflict. You can read about my research here and visit my play blog here.
In 2011 I have been awarded escalator funding from Arts Council England for the Seven Walks in a Holy City project. I am also lead artist on an Arts Council England Research project called Children Take the Lead.
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