Contact Point is an annual event at the Israel Museum that features creative performances and experiences throughout the museum grounds. This year's event focuses on themes of social interaction and collective experience. Participants can experience artworks in new contexts through a variety of mediums including dance, music, games, and more both inside and outside the museum buildings. Events include street soccer, meditation circles, electronic music, storytelling, and encouraging participants to take pictures and share them online. The goal is to discover new interpretations of art and new ways of seeing the museum.

1. 2013
Exciting late-night
encounters at the
Israel museum

2. Contact Point Staff
Artistic director: Renana Raz
Chief producer: Neta Cohen
Artistic producer: Dudu Kusher
Media: Saar Gamzo
Technical production director
and lighting design: Danny Fishof,
Magenta – Lighting and Sound
Production: Zohar Dvir, Inna Mayler
Assistant producers: Keren Arnon,
Smadar Cohen, Noga Pfeffermann
Steering Committee
Jerusalem Season of Culture:
Renana Raz, Itay Mautner,
Naomi Bloch Fortis
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem:
Tali Gavish, Tania Coen-Uzzielli,
Mira Lapidot, Neta Cohen
Contact Point: A joint project of
the Jerusalem Season of Culture
and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

3. Contact Point gives creators from different
artistic fields the opportunity to engage
with and respond to the artworks on
display at the Israel Museum, setting
them in new, personal contexts, all in the
presence of the audience and with its
participation. Tonight you may experience
the Museum as you never have before,
not only as viewers and passive
observers, but as active participants and
co-creators. Held for the fourth time in a
row, this year's event revolves around the
socio-humane theme. It is fitting, therefore,
that many of the Points invite you, the
audience members, to collaborate, take
part in the creative process, and endow
the works with your own interpretation.
The wide array of meanings and
interpretations produced over the course
of the evening will define the Museum as
a site of human interaction and collective
emotional experiences. The Contact
Points constitute original, unique artworks
in a wide range of mediums. Some occur
inside the Museum while others take place
outside, some are in motion while others
are static, some are individual while others
are collective, but all are aimed at the
public, examining its role and involvement
in the artistic experience. This represents
a wonderful opportunity to discover fresh
interpretations of the art of the ancient
world to the present day. As always,
the event offers new ways of looking at
artworks and at the Museum itself.
We are grateful to the staff of the Israel
Museum for its important contribution and
fruitful collaboration.
Enjoy the evening,
Renana Raz, Artistic Director,
and the Contact Point Staff

4. Open Air and Shrine of the Book:
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Stanga (Street Soccer)
at the Museum
When:8:00–11:00pm
Where:ShrineoftheBookSquare
Circles in the Art Garden
Circle1:SinginginSignLanguage– NehamaPearl
When:9:00pm,11:00pm,midnight
Where:NexttoRobertIndiana'sAHAVA(love)
Circle2:TheHavaLehabaMagazineinaPoetry
Performance
When:10:00pm,11:30pm,12:30am
Where:NexttoPabloPicasso'sProfile
Circle3:ZenStorieswithHaimSchuster
When:9:30pm,10:30pm,11:30pm
Where:NexttoManoloValdés'sInfantaMargarita
Circle4:WittyStand-Up–TomYa'ar
When:9:30pm,11:00pm,12:30am
Where:NexttoHenryMoore'sVertebrae
Circle5:Qigong–NiraRabinovitch
When:10:00pm,11:30pm,1:00am
Where:NexttoRobertIndiana'sAHAVA(Love)
Duration:Approx.30minutes
Panda Porn: Spinning Shrine
Secret Society
When:9:30pm–12:30am
Where:ShrineoftheBook
The Museum through your
own eyes
When:Allnight
Where:ArtGarden
TagyourpicturesonInstagramas:
#contactpoint2013
Foodtrip: "I Am the Artist"
When:8:30pm,9:30pm,10:30pm,11:30pm,
12:30am,1:30am
Where:NeartheBenniEfrat'sExtrapolations
intheartgardensculpture
Duration:Approx.45minutes
Spaceislimited
Pleasepre-registerat8:00pm,10:00pm,and
midnightatthenearbystand.

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at the Museum
Between the white dome of the Shrine of
the Book and the black wall, at the very
spot where the Sons of Light encounter
the Sons of Darkness, a game of Stanga,
soccer's ancient predecessor, will be held.
Players: Fans of Hapoel Katamon
Jerusalem and you. Go, Katamon, go!
Initiator: Yonatan Levy
Organizer on behalf of the Hapoel
Katamon Jerusalem team: Eitan Perry
Circles in the Art Garden
This year, a number of circles await you
in the Art Garden, inviting you to gather,
laugh, listen, learn, internalize, breathe,
or simply raise your eyes to the stars and
admire the beauty of the night sky.
Circle 1: Singing in Sign Language –
Nehama Pearl teaches you how to sing
silently.
Circle 2: The Hava Lehaba Magazine
in an extraordinary transhumanistic-
Panda Porn: Spinning Shrine
Secret Society
For the first time in the Shrine of the
Book: an electronic chill-out lounge.
The Jerusalem Panda Porn ensemble,
featuring Alma Ben-Yossef Timi and
Tomer Rosenthal, produces a hypnotic
soundtrack of unusual sounds, offering
the audience a futuristic glimpse of the
Shrine that houses the most ancient
manuscripts of the Bible.
metamodernistic poetry performance.
With Oded Carmeli, Amir Menasheof,
Navit Barel, Jeremy Fogel, Reuel Shuali,
and others
Circle 3: Zen Stories with Haim Schuster
Circle 4: Witty Stand-Up – Tom Ya'ar
makes you laugh.
Circle 5: Qigong – Nira Rabinovitch
opens your heart with her personal story.

7. 3 4The Museum through your
own eyes
Will you be taking a picture with
Danziger's Nimrod to upload onto your
Facebook page? Or of one of Picasso's
paintings to send as an instant message
to your friends? Tonight you can do what
you would anyways do, while contributing
to a greater cause. Over the course of the
evening, you may use your cellular device
to take pictures of frames that captivate
your eye. The focus need not be on the
artworks, but on anything in their vicinity –
the choice is entirely yours.
What do you do?
Take pictures through Instagram and tag
them as #contactpoint2013
All of the pictures will be projected on
Sol LeWitt's Block, forming a personalized
mosaic of the Museum.
#contactpoint2013
Foodtrip: "I Am the Artist"
The Foodtrip from the Jerusalem Season
of Culture and the Mahneyuda restaurant
arrives at Contact Point for a special visit.
Performance artist Hadas Ophrat invites
anyone who declares him/herself to be
an artist to create an artistic, colorful
laffa (Iraqi bread), together with him
and Assaf Granit. Just before it is bitten
into, the artwork will be photographed.
Participation is conditional upon signing
a declaration and wearing an electronic
buzzer with the inscription "I Am the Artist"
all through the night.

8. Crown Plaza
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Correspondence. Love. Story.
When:10:15–11:00pm
Where:CrownPlaza
Dance the Night Away
When:11:00pm–3:00am
Where:CrownPlaza
Play Away
When:11:00aM-3:00aM
Where:CrownPlaza
The Other Boy from
South Tel Aviv
When:Allnight
Where:CrownPlaza

10. 6 7Correspondence. Love. Story.
From Berlin to Jaffa and Back
A radio play
Just prior to the party at Crown Plaza,
artist and curator Moran Shoub tells you
a love story through headphones; a love
story of which she is the heroine; a love
story between the artist and his model;
an epistolary love story. Sharing the wild
romance with you, she seeks to breach
the framework of the story, allowing life
itself to motivate the plot.
Dance the Night Away
Two DJs, 1,500 headphones, and one
Anish Kapoor meet for a loud party in
absolute silence under the night sky.
And you? You dance the night away…
and decide for yourself to which of the
DJs you would like to listen. It is not an
easy choice. Both are excellent. A slight
touch to the button transposes you to a
different rhythmic universe. This year's
DJs are Solly Noama – Jerusalem legend
and unbeatable rhythm machine, who
has rocked the city's coolest parties over
the years – and Ori Bankhalter – whose
sophisticated taste, long hair, and sly
smile transport you across the globe on a
musical journey that will remain with you
long after you have left the dance floor.

11. 8 9Play Away
New Media artist Arik Futterman
programmed mythological computer
games especially for you, adapting them
to the Museum Wall at the Plaza. If you,
too, feel that the screen is too small, come
play on the Museum Wall; using a cordless
joystick, you may break a record tonight!
Games: Arkanoid (also known as Breakout
and Popcorn) and Pac-Man
The number of games is limited; please
pre-register at the nearby stand
The Other Boy from
South Tel Aviv
Ohad Meromi's sculpture The Boy from
South Tel Aviv stands at the entrance
to the Museum. On the other side of the
glass pane sits the other boy from south
Tel Aviv. He traveled all the way here,
entered the gate, climbed the steps, but
has remained outside. He knocks on the
window, calling on his friend to let him in
or perhaps to join him outside and play.
Created by FALUJA and made of planks
collected from carpentry workshops
in south Tel Aviv, the sculpture will be
completed tonight.
In collaboration with Lior Peleg

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When One Forest Meets Another
When:9:30pm,10:30pm,12:30am
Where:IntheexhibitionYehuditSasportas:
SevenWinters
Duration:15minutes
Spaceislimited
The Raffle
When:8:30pm–1:00am
Where:Secretpassagewayintheexhibition
DisplacedVisions
Admissionuponsuccessfulcompletion
ofthepreliminaryinterview
Part of Me Has Remained
Elsewhere
When:10:00pm,11:00pm,midnight
Where:IntheexhibitionDisplacedVisions
Duration:25minutes

14. 1110 When One Forest Meets
Another
A fascinating encounter between two
women artists in a single forest. The video
work The Light Worshipers, depicting a
woody marsh, is screened in the exhibition
Yehudit Sasportas: Seven Winters.
Dancer and choreographer Maya Brinner
fills the space as she brings her work
Forest together with Sasportas's film.
The Raffle
"The Raffle" – a social experiment
conceived by Saar Szekely and
Keren Sheffi – will be held in an empty
space in the Museum. Following a short
interview, you will be assigned a number.
You will then enter a space governed by
a single computer. Henceforth, you will
be under its dominion. Once you enter
the Raffle hall, you take upon yourself a
whole new set of rules and regulations
that create an alternate social reality:
the computer discreetly gives you
instructions – randomly chosen from an
extensive database – which will determine
the relationships and interactions among
you. Its external intervention interrupts the
inherent link between will and action and
melds the intimate with the public.

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Elsewhere
In the heart of the exhibition Displaced
Visions: Émigré Photographers of the
20th Century, composer and singer
Shlomo Ydov performs songs about
location, time, belonging, and memory.
The singer, whose music is suffused with
the experience of immigration, takes you
on a journey among his songs, revealing
the stories behind them while using sounds
to share his struggles with a new language.

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Fine Arts Wing

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A Book of Your Own
When:9:30pm,11:00pm,12:30am
Where:IntheexhibitionBytheBook
Duration:30minutes
Thepublicisaskedtobringoldordamagedbooks
fromhometothebindingsessionwhichwillbeheld
inthegallerybetween8:30and9:30pm.
A Point in Time
16AFlag,EfratNatan(January1974)
Performedby:RacheliHagigi
When:9:00am-12:30am
Where:IsraeliArtGalleries
16BPlace,MichaUllman(1975)
Reenactmentofonesegmentofthevideowork
Performedby:TalRamon
When:9:45pm,10:45pm,11:45pm
Where:AtriumCourtyard
Spaceislimited
Pleasepre-registeratthenearbystand
The Sidewalk Bunch Ensemble
Whenandwhere:
8:15pmintheArchaeologicalPark
10:00pmintheexhibitionColorGoneWild
MidnightintheCardo
The Gift
When:9:30pm,11:00pm,12:30am
Where:18th-CenturyFrenchSalon,
EuropeanArt
Duration:15minutes
Spaceislimited
Pleasepre-registeratthenearbystand
The Children's Channel
When:Allnight
Where:ModernArtGalleries

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A Book of Your Own
In the exhibition By the Book, you will be
hosted and interviewed about the books
you have never written, but which are
attributed to you for one night only. Artist
Michal Shamir binds books and installs
them in the gallery. The books are opened
during Alit Kreiz's talk show and used as
a source of inspiration for conversations,
questions, and insights about you and
your life. A performance that emerges
from an installation that emerges from
a book. Sounds complicated? Here
everything will become clear.
Thank you to the Museum employees
who collected the books.
The Gift
Specially conceived for Contact Point,
director and playwright Yonatan Levy
spent a night in the Baron de Rothschild's
French Salon. His experiences over the
course of that evening inspired him to
write a new play, which will be performed
tonight for the very first time.
The Sidewalk Bunch Ensemble
The Sidewalk Bunch ensemble revives
the jazz tradition of New Orleans. Tonight
they wander like an exhibition throughout
the Museum. You are invited to erupt in a
dance whenever the muse takes you.

19. 15 16The Children's Channel
They are back, following their tremendous
success last year! Yonatan and Masha
Tzur recorded children's reactions to
select artworks in the Dada, Surrealist,
and Pop Art galleries. The results, like
music to your ears, will be broadcast
on the audio guide awaiting you in the
galleries. Pick one up, bring it to your ear,
and embark on a once-in-a-lifetime tour
of the Museum, replete with funny, witty,
surprising, and thought-provoking insights
about art and the way we look at it.
Participating children: Uria Cohen
Ella and Alma Weiss | Ania and Ilay Buvrov
Hagar Rosen-Ozer | Hadar Kreizman
Hodaya Golan | Zohar Barkan | Talia Zur
Yoel Meir | Kerem Sudry | Noam Rimon
Neta Rosmarin Barled | Sophie Akardi
A Point in Time
Micha Ullman's Place and Efrat Natan's
Flag, two works (video and stills) that
have never before been presented to
the public, come to life tonight in a new
contact point. Is it true that only one
straight line connects two dots?

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Archaeology Wing and Wing
for Jewish Art and Life

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When:Allnight
Where:HazorGate,ArchaeologyWing
My Personalized Museum
Soundtrack
When:
8:30pmUriMisgav
10:00pmNanaSchrier
11:30pmIdanAlterman
Where:RouteofPassage
Fire Tongue
When:10:00pm,11:00pm,midnight
Where:HolyLandGallery,ArchaeologyWing
Duration:20minutes
Double Spread
When:Theimageswillbescreenedasof10:00pm
Where:TheCardo
A European on Allenby Street
When:Audioguideallthroughthenight
Where:WingforJewishArtandLife

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Tel Nona: Audience Version
Artist Nona Orbach collects minuscule
items from you and arranges them into
a fictive archaeological display. You are
invited to contribute to the building of this
singular archaeology collection. You will be
rewarded with a ceramic key to the ancient
library of Alexandria. What do you need in
order to participate? An old key, a coin, a
business card, or any other small, personal
item that you are willing to part with.
Assistant: Orit Jacobson
Communications strategy: Ron Wexler
and Nir Gilboa
Fire Tongue
In between the synagogue, church, and
mosque in the Holy Land Gallery, the
System Ali band performs Hip Hop in
four languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English,
and Russian. Based in Jaffa's Ajami
neighborhood, the ensemble presents
the beautiful complexity found in the
difference between languages, religious
beliefs, and nationalities, producing a rich
musical mosaic.
The ensemble includes the following
artists: Muhamad Mugrabi, Anbar
Saitibergimov, Liba Neeman, Yonatan
Konda, Mahmed Aguani, Yehonatan
Dayan, Moti Ben-Baruch, Luna Abu-
Nasser, Nati Viner.
Sound design: Idan Shimoni
My Personalized Museum
Soundtrack
Uri Misgav, Nana Shrier, and Idan
Alterman play their favorite music next to
Danish painter Olafur Eliasson's Whenever
the rainbow appears. Expect unusual
sounds and exceptional musical selections.
Scan the barcode

23. 20 21Double Spread
After roaming the corridors of the Museum
and capturing figures on camera, writer
Igal Sarna and photographer Eldad Rafaeli
will disappear into a hidden inner room
with their digital treasures, broadcasting
the figures they have collected onto an
external wall of the Museum. Will you be
among those captured in action?
A European on Allenby Street
Artist Orly Maiberg, granddaughter
of Joseph Stieglitz, reinvigorates her
grandfather's considerable collection of
Jewish art. Sounds, images, and personal
memories are incorporated into the audio
guide, dispersed throughout the gallery,
and screened in the Wing for Jewish Art
and Life. Tonight you may examine these
items from an intimate perspective.
Sound editing: Shahaf Wagshel
Video editing: Sharon Alubik

24. See you at Contact Point 2014!
Program is subject to change
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