Safe and Sound: "The Chase"

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"It is mostly at night that the highest fear of crime occurs. Although all of the senses provide information about the environment, it is through vision that the majority of information is acquired and processed by the brain. Vision, therefore, has a tremendous impact on the decision making process."
(from the Guideline on Security Lighting for People, Property, and Public Spaces, 2003)

In the last 2.5 years, under the meta-title "Safe and Sound", Rodeh has been following the visual and sonar expressions of safety in the city. In the case of this show, the emphasize is on the  presence of light and it's physical effect on one's eyesight and body. Temporary lights and lit photographs will together perform a chase of lights, a silent performance of rhythm.

Alona Rodeh (1979) is a visual artist based in Tel Aviv and Berlin. Rodeh’s works react to cultural phenomena by engaging and appropriating their visual and concrete manifestations, rooted in the daily practice of the public sphere. Her large-scale works have been exhibited at venues including among others Tel Aviv Museum, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, CCA Tel Aviv, Plug In ICA in Winnipeg, Canada. She has held performances at Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, at the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, Israel Museum and others. Recently Rodeh exhibited a solo show at Grimmuseum in Berlin. In this year's Transmediale Festival, Rodeh will present a lecture-performance on the history of siren devices, mapping the parallel evolution of sirens in civil defense and music from the early 19th century until today, with an emphasis on Israel’s history of alarms. Her talk will include demonstrations of siren sounds in what will eventually become a musical composition carried out by Tel Aviv musician Mule Driver.

Rhythmics: Colin Hacklander
Engineering: Rachid Moro