Adina Bar-On, in Kibbutz Kfar Blum, Israel, is a pioneer performance artist, considered to be the first performance artist in Israel.
19 Facts About Adina Bar-On
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Adina Bar-On's performances consist of unique use of human body and voice expression, close to modern dance and experimental sound techniques.
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Adina Bar-On's work emphasizes strong connection of art and non-structural ethics of behavior, and introduces it by activating audience's high levels of attention and consciousness.
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Adina Bar-On began her first performances in the early 1973 as a third year student at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.
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Adina Bar-On is a performance art teacher at Bezalel Academy's Visual Arts Department.
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Adina Bar-On studied to become a painter, although was deeply involved in conceptual art movement.
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Adina Bar-On's parents were Zionist American Jews who came to Israel at the beginning of this state, to set a country for a free nation to live in their own state.
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Adina Bar-On was born in kibbutz, and after some years in Israel went to America to go to secondary school.
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At the Bezalel Academy Adina Bar-On was focused on painting and studied conceptual art, which was becoming the most important approach in contemporary practice.
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Adina Bar-On found inspiration for her aesthetics in film, precisely in Giulietta Masina's actors work, as well as in the new manner introduced by Fellini, Antonioni and Godard of seeing film-life relationship problem.
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Adina Bar-On studied dance for some time and experimented with mime.
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Adina Bar-On's work was described as "strong" and "subtle" at the same time and some people recognized her new aesthetics, exceptional way of creating art as a means of human communication.
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Adina Bar-On was 23 years old when she decided to complete her academic diploma at the Bezalel despite the professors' "advice" to quit making performances, and she prepared a special, highly conceptual photographic work.
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Adina Bar-On wrote in 2000 about a necessity and ethical motivation of her work: "I felt that art was losing its connection with what characterizes the human being, the ability to connect intellect with emotions".
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Subtle level of communication is crucial for Adina Bar-On's performances, working with "quantum level" of emotions.
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Early in her career Adina Bar-On started to teach and worked on various art educational projects focused on the language of visual communication and live-art.
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Adina Bar-On played an important role in Amos Gitai 1990 film "Birth of a Golem", giving an expressive improvised performance in the movie, and appearing on a screen in the moment when the story of a Golem is told.
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Adina Bar-On helped to direct Annie Lennox in her role as Golem's figure in the cave scene.
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Still not theoretically described nor defined aesthetics of Adina Bar-On is an inspiration for new generation of artists.