Public Movement (IL)

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. Focal point are the regulations, forces, agents and policies, systems of identity and systems of ritual which govern the dynamics of public life and public space. Public Movement was founded by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi in November 2006. Since August 2011 it has been run solely by Dana Yahalomi. Amongst Public Movement’s works are 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), "Positions" (NY, 6.11.11, Performa&OWS), "SALONS: Birthright Palestine?" (New Museum, New York, 2012) and "The Reenactment of the Mount Herzl Terrorist Attack" (Upcoming).