Benjamin Lotan

A two month undercover performance piece and research mission in Jerusalem. The performance documentation which consists of photos, video footage and audio recordings, becomes material for video works, and subsequent performances.

A walking path around the studio is sped up, traced, and layered to create a swarming human mass.

Landscapes from the Southern California

Produced as a dance video, Dive is a loosly choreographed dumpster diving session in which performers rummage for good food deemed unfit for sale, and thrown away.

By back-projecting onto a white sheet covering my front appartment window, I created a large screen that was clearly visable from the street. Each night for a week, My roomate and I set up a live video feed from inside the appartment and shared our nightly activities with the outside world.

Text Message is an animated video short. A fragmentd visual poem embracing the age of SMS and status updates.

The simple image of reverse consumerism, returns is a looping video piece shot outside of a Costco Wholesale store in San Diego CA.

20 minute micro-performance with Shani Pak.

A space used strictly for formal observation and research is reappropriated as a site for nonsensical play and intimicy. The hour-long performance was looped and streamed "live" on the internet for a 24 hour period. Allowing the performers to exist simultaneously live in person and online.

Alice's yellow hair is isolated in each frame of the Disney classic.

nothing here yet.