PLAY DEAD is an opening event at the gallery, featuring a guided screening of an interactive opera alongside a group exhibition. The opera is based on a classical Tibetan text – the Bardo Thödol – and depicts the transitional moments between life and death through the sense of hearing. The experience is delivered via an Xbox controller that passes between participants, while the audience as a whole watches, listens, and takes part.
Alongside the screening, artworks are presented that deepen the theme: pain, transformation, consciousness, and Eastern mysticism. Some of the works come from artists who consistently engage with questions of ending, rupture, and healing. Together, these elements compose an event that is at once a game, an exhibition, and a ritual.
The narrative of PLAY DEAD approaches death not as a taboo, but as an open space for listening, transformation, and healing. It seeks to offer a sensory experience that allows the audience to dwell in subjects that culture usually represses – and to emerge from them renewed.
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About The Opera
Liberation Through Hearing is an interactive opera built on the engine of a two-dimensional platform game, but it does not follow the expectations of the gaming world. Instead of scoring, levels, or victory – every movement, jump, or shot produces a sound. Every participant’s interaction is a musical act. The participant does not “play” the opera but rather performs it live in real time.
The work seeks to introduce participants to the Dharma, not as an external system of beliefs, but as a way of exploring consciousness from within itself. It is a space that aims to release the participant from the constraints of fear and from false interpretations of reality.
About The Artist
Dganit Elyakim
Dganit Elyakim (b.1977, Tel Aviv) is a composer and sound artist, working across a broad spectrum of practices to depict various aspects of the human and digital paradigm. Exploring numerous artistic strategies that span from electro-acoustic, vocal, or chamber music through sound installation, video, and new-media work, her oeuvre attempts to reflect on philosophical, political, and ethical issues regarding the constantly evolving technologies. Elyakim studied composition at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague with Gilius van Bergeijk, Martijn Padding, and Clarence Barlow
about the art
Litalia D
Litalia Dadush (b. 1986) is an Israeli illustrator and painter who playfully merges the freedom of drawing with the precision of technology.
Her practice explores the intersection of hand-drawn linework and digital manipulation. Influenced by comic books, Pop Art, typography, and the power of scale, she gravitates toward bold, dynamic compositions and the simplicity of limited palettes. Her subjects, ranging from iconic statues and art historical imagery to vintage comics and everyday objects, are reimagined into striking works that challenge perception.
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Eran Tur & Liad Douk
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