Disposition: Performance Art of Adina Bar-On

Date
Jul 20, 2001 – Aug 5, 2001
Location
Para/Site Art Space
2 Po Yan Street, Sheung Wan
Opening Reception
Opening and Performance
Jul 20, 2001
6:00 - 8:00pm

Adina Bar-On

 

Adina Bar-On is a pioneer performance artist in Israel. She toured around Asia, including Hong Kong, in 2001 with Seiji Shimoda, the award-winning Japanese performance artist. In the past 30 years, Bar-On has produced more than twenty performance pieces. An exhibition of her video works and photographic documentation of her works is held in Para Site Art Space. Bar-On performed her new work Disposition outdoor. Since 1973, Bar-On started to experiment with performance. She makes use of her body movement and voice to communicate with the audience. Her work emphasizes interaction and connection. The audience’s emotion follows Bar-On‘s behaviour. She breathes, blinks, quivers, swallows. The charged moments excite the audience internally and externally.

Adina Bar-On was born in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, Israel in 1951. She stayed with her family in the United States at the age of thirteen. She went back to Israel at eighteen and in the next year joined the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem majoring in painting. In 1973 she had her first performance in the Academy. The Academy’s psychologists were asked to watch the performance in order to give opinions. Bar-On received a warning letter from the directors of the Academy informing her that she had to go back to traditional media in order to graduate. On one hand, Bar-On went back to painting, on the other, she performed in places outside the Academy such as gallery, museum, cultural centre and art space. She even extended it to non-art establishments such as youth club, shopping arcade, and private home. In 2000, Bar-On toured to Budapest, Japan, Macau, Hong Kong, Russia and Poland.

This project is curated by Kith Tsang Tak Ping and is supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem.

 

More materials are available to view on site at Para Site. 

Click here to see a full inventory of all archive materials and contact us at archive@para-site.art for enquiries, to request an appointment to view materials, and for archival materials donations.

 

The Archive Project is financially supported by the Project Grant of the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.

 

 

Related Event

Jul 29, 2001
Outdoor Performance—Disposition

press release (2001/ex_11/box 1/2)

ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY (2001/EX_11/BOX 1/5)

Performance by Adina Bar-On at Para Site (2001/ex_11/box 23/14)