Festival Poalot at Alfred

Zivi Adiram, Lea Bessoudo Greck, Sigal Bergman, Joy Bernard, Adaya Godlevsky, Nir Jacob Yonessi, Michal Gil, Ruth Danon, Roee Derstin, Michal Hirsch, Maayan Liebman –Sharon, Ori Lenkinski, Laila Mazal Yenishen, Revital Michali, Amit Fishbein, & Danny Tavori

Art Directors: Revital Michali & Efrat Rubin

24.06.22-07.07.22

In various spaces in the Alfred Institute building and gallery

Performances & events
Tickets & Information

Poalot 1
Friday, June 24, 2022
16:30, 18:30 and 20:30

Empty Skies - Maayan Liebman –Sharon
Woman in Motion Part 3 - Michal Gil
8 Cubic Feet - Zivi Adiram and Uri Segal Galkin
Flooding in the Staircase - Adaya Godlevsky
Bdy.frqncy.proj – Danny Tavori and Nir Jacob Yonessi

Poalot 2
Saturday, June 25, 2022
16:30, 18:30 and 20:30

I Take Care of Myself - Joy Bernard
Art Washing - Revital Michali
TANOT - Ruth Danon, Laila Mazal Yenishen and Amit Fishbein
Revert to Manual - Sigal Bergman

Poalot 3
Thursday, July 7, 2022
19:30 and 21:30

Lost Feathers - Michal Hirsch
Meet Me in the Gallery - Ori Lenkinski

Oxygen 2
weekend of June 30 – July 2, 2022

Multidisciplinary artwork, exhibition and performances
by Roee Derstin and Lea Bessoudo

Thursday, June 30

Friday, July 1

Saturday, July 2

Street Party
Saturday, July 2 starting at 21:00

immediately following the last performance in Oxygen 2
outside of the gallery.

Festival Poalot at Alfred

For the first time, this year Alfred – Cooperative Institute for Art and Culture has initiated a multidisciplinary festival including about 15 artists from diverse fields: dance, theater, music, voice, sound and performance. The works address the theme of Alfred Gallery’s exhibition season, Flooded, while also addressing the structure of the exhibition space and the specific site in which they are presented. 

The objective of the festival Poalot at Alfred is to expand and enrich the treatment of the annual exhibition theme and to provide visual, vocal, musical and performative expressions of the topic “flooding”. It also aims to broaden and promote Alfred’s activity by creating a unique platform that enables artists from various fields to create and exhibit at the Alfred Institute in diverse ways. 

The range of performances to be held within the festival Poalot at Alfred fluctuates on a wide scale between abstract-contrast performances that emphasize shapes and colors and theatrical, narrative and personal performances. 

Exhibition Season: Flooded

The festival Poalot at Alfred is a special, first-time initiative at the Alfred Cooperative’s spaces and gallery, held within the 2022-2023 exhibition season, dedicated to the theme: Flooded.

We live in an era that is flooded and flooding. The world is overflowing like a river. While we must flow with the current, we actually have trouble keeping our heads above water, especially with FOMO hovering above us. Boundaries melt in the spheres of the psychological / consciousness and the physical / corporeal / geographical. There are too many possibilities and choosing between them is confusing. 

Through the exhibition series “Flooded”, Alfred Gallery strives to anchor islands in the unending flow of events, images, talks and words. Although the flooding is uncontrollable, it is not passive. It is a conflict arena, an upheaval that threatens to spill over, it is movement, struggle and conciliation. We have asked artists for proposals and ideas for exhibitions and events that flood or are flooded, and consider different aspects of this exhibition season’s title.