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BNEY HAMA on stage again: 10 May 22:00 Tmuna Theater, Tel Aviv; 23 May Hatzollelet, Jerusalem.
A new performance piece, A Lecture on Architecture, was premiered on May 3 2012 at the Israeli Center for Contemporary Art in Tel aviv (CCA). Conceived in collaboration with Israel Architecture Archive and constructed around a projected collage of images of futurist Israeli architecture from the 60’s and 70’s, the piece is a sound and text sci-fi meditation on fantasy, memory and the nature of fiction. More performances to be announced.
BNEY HAMA on The Wire Tapper 28: “Kampai” from Bney Hama’s debut, is included in the cd compilation attached to April issue of The Wire magazine.
SPEAKERS, a new dance piece for six, created by choreographer Noa Zuk for Ballet Bern in Switzerland, is to be premiered this Saturday, 18 February 2012, at the Vidmar Theatre, Bern. Music, Soundtrack Design and Dramaturgy by O.F. More details about the performances here.
bneyhama.com is now online. This new home for all things Beny Hama on the net, contains music, video, images, special projects, archive and news. For the time being, it is mostly in Hebrew. For an English page, go the the recently updated Bney Hama page here in this website.
The album of BNEY HAMA is out now. Buy it here, or here, where it is also available for streaming.
MITOCH SHENA is the first single from the upcoming album of BNEY HAMA. It is out now and can be listened to here or downloaded for free here.
BNEY HAMA will play live this Thursday, 20.10.11, at The Beat club, as part of Haifa International Film Festival (22:30); and a week later in Indinegav Festival (27.10.11, 01:10).
Video work is being presented in four group exhibitions during October-November 2011:
- In Yaffo Twentythree Gallery in Jerusalem, the short film Abduction – the second in the Hoon series of works, and winner of the Best Experimental Film category at the Jerusalem Film Festival 2011 – is part of the exhibition Another World is Possible. The Exhibition was curated by Maayan Amir and is showcasing video work recently commissioned by The Fund for Cinema and Television. link
- Tmuna Theater Gallery is showing music and dance related video work, as part of Oz in the City performance festival. The Band from 2010 (originally part of The Sauna installation), is being shown next to works by Michal Helfman and Ran Slavin among others. link
- Electric Garden is an exhibition curated by Naomi Aviv at Contemporary by Golconda, and is looking at work made by artists who are also musicians. The works presented are How and Gaps, twin sisters video-stories created in 2006. opening 27.10.11. link
- Jerusalem Beach, curated by Iris Mendel, is being held at the new gallery of Jerusalem’s Artists Studios. the piece: The Founder (originally part of The Sauna installation, 2010). Fellow artists: Sigalit Landau, Eli Petel, David Adika, Dor Guez, Mosh Kashi and Lea Avital, all ex-Jerusalemites. Opens 27.10.11 link
SLOW WALK ROTHSCHILD completed: approximately 560 meters, walked in 8 hours, 42 minutes and 42 seconds, in celebration of the most important social upheaval in the history of Israel. More documentation will follow (photo: Eran Bendheim)
On Thursday 1 September 2011, I will be leading a very slow walk along Rothschild Avenue in Tel-Aviv, where the first tent city that initiated the current mass protest movement in Israel, was established seven weeks ago. The walk, at a pace of approximately one meter per minute, will take the whole day to complete. It is held as a tribute to the social protest, recognizing that such struggles for change are long-term and require patience, determination and commitment. It is a symbolic act of commitment to the future. I invite anyone who wishes, to join me. You can walk 10 minutes, 1 hour or more, it is up to you. If you would like to slow walk with me, please send your name and contact details:
BNEY HAMA will play live this Friday, 5.8.11, in Tmuna Theater. Also in the lineup: Ashkara Metim, Bella Tar, Ed Terner & the Danilof Centre and Rutzi Buba – all represented by DamDam management label. details: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178062782261244
ISHAI ADAR, The second half of BNEY HAMA, has a new website. Please visit: http://www.ishaiadar.com/
The short film ABDUCTION had just won the 1st prize in the Best Experimental Film category at The 28th Jerusalem Film Festival. Abduction is the second episode in the series Hoon. It was created with the support of the The Experimental Films Program of The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television (curator: Maayan Amir). It will be screened as part of the program later this year. Images from the film and the short story on which it is based can be found here
The debut album of BNEY HAMA is finally ready. It will be released in September on Anova Music. A full schedule with live dates, single release dates and other events will be announced soon. 
A bunch of Nosei Hamigbaat photos from the mid Eighties just surfaced. They were taken during live shows in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by Eran Bendheim, Alon Sela and Dani Fishof, respectively. Here is the new dedicated page
