ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 51

Petra Paul & Ophira Avisar ICUL CTION C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue make also objects, like ”Uteri Ballet” or ”The Tampon Dancing Stars”. I started to make film as well as performance. I work also against racism, anti-semitism,… for tolerance, for peace. In photography I took different colors of the skin, or I put Osman Masouds (from Sudan) and my face together. Or I made a film ”Against Terrorism” with peace photographer Abdulrab Habibyar. Will make another film together with Abdulrab, Fanny Kafka and Wasil Faizi, which will deal with the feelings of a refugee. I often work with humor and this is a point, which connects me to Ophira. Our society is getting much more right-wing. This also includes more racism and anti-semitism. In Poland and Hungary the government is right. This means also censorship in journalism and art. I always try to find an aesthetic way, a own aesthetic language, to work with all this subjects. Multidisciplinarity is a key feature of your approach, that coherently encapsulates photography, video and performance, revealing an unconventional still consistent sense of unity. Before starting to elaborate about your production, we would suggest to our readers to visit http://petrapaul.beepworld.de in order to get a synoptic view of your multifaceted artistic productions: while walking our readers through your process and set up, we would like to ask you how did you develop your style and how do you conceive your works. Ophira Avisar: Being a multidisciplinary artist is a natural evolving of these times I think and also a part of my choice to be "citizen" of all arts, of all times and of many points of views. My patria is painting and drawing. But I go to visit and even immigrate from language t o language or even to no language at all as in my work "Rishumon", in which I draw and erase a story of a woman on a blackboard and there is an actress that lives in my drawings story. I created, and directed the show. Petra Paul: We aways talk a lot via messenger, we call each other. Since we met I was two times in Tel Aviv-Jaffo, will fly back there soon. We are very quick in thinking and working. It is a really phantasmic exchange between us. We met and we said, we have to work together. We act and react very good. Some things are planned, but we are also free to change something. We are spontaneous. The film ”FOR…” for example. I wrote the words ”for tolerance, for peace…” for ”Transformation” on my computer and translated it to hebrew. Ophira corrected it. Then we put the words with a projector to parts of our bodies. Then we made this film, which was not planned. For this special edition of ARTiculAction we have selected Transformation, an extremely interesting collaborative project that our readers have already started to get to know in the introductory pages of this article. This performative work project is a successful attempt to force the viewers' perceptual categories, inducing them to question the construction of masculinity and womanliness. When walking our readers through the genesis of Transformation, we would like to ask you what is the role of chance in your process: how much improvisation is important for you? Ophira Avisar: "Transformation" is a collaboration between the two points of view of Petra and me. It is an artistic action that involves a natural change of terms. The old question "what is it?" is being dealt here using paint, object, and 21