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.
Event scedule:
17:00 - Open Doors, open wine and mingling.
19:30 - Vinyl Healing & Meditation session by Liad Douk and Guy Almoz
20:30 - Artist talk, Dganit & Shahar Sarig about their opera
21:00 - Opera show (estimated runtime: 1.5 hr)
