Exhibited at the Fleishman Gallery September 14 to 29 2010
Lezli Rubin-Kunda, a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Israel presents a group of videos that document book-based performances. In each work, she sets up a dialogue between the written text, and the realities of place and lived experience, intervening through drawing, materials and direct action. Along with the video works, ‘performed’ and ‘altered’ books are displayed in the gallery.
The exhibition takes place in connection with a book-based performance titled Realms of Knowing, taking place at the Hart House Reading Rooms at the University of Toronto on September 25th, and the accompanying exhibition for WIAprojects, at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (CWSE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) U of T (Sept 27th).
Video Programme:
Topographical Readings, 2007, Drawing over the pages of historical books on Jerusalem, the artist accesses the more primary landscape underlying the conflicted history and myth that cover the land.
The Consolation of Philosophy, 2008, The artist explores the relation between the disembodied truths of philosophical texts to the material world. Spices and foodstuff are rubbed or licked onto the pages, merging the two paradigms of knowledge.
Petal Preservation, 2010, In the artist’s backyard, petals are plucked and pressed between pages of an encyclopedia.
Erase and Dissolve,2010, Truths in texts are accessed only in fragments, over time. Obscured texts are exposed through erasure, or dissolved through rubbing.
Lezli Rubin-Kunda is a multidisciplinary Canadian/Israeli artist, whose site-specific performance work in Israel, Canada and Europe explores intimate connections to spaces and materials. Her performance videos have been widely shown at festivals and symposiums, including Toronto’s 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art www.lezlirubinkunda.com
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