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Freeze - mix media installation, 2m x 17m meter mural, 4 sound works, and three booklets, 2024 

The project is a multidisciplinary composition, dealing with anxiety and depression. It is made of overlapping a large-scale graphic novel, spread across large-size murals, three comics booklets, three original songs, and a 10-minute sound work. Ideally, the spectator should be following the story linearly, reading the novel by the order. 

The linear reading performance-like walk unfolds a story in three stages: 


(1) Three meetings and/or encounters of Allon with his psychologist, who suggests he come up with a weekly list of "5 things he's taken responsibility over this week", to cope and balance his emotional state, and the introduction of the personification of Oyzis,  Greek Mythology God of depression, in a cartoony-form of water (teardrop, constant rain, and puddles).

 

(2) Five Walls that tell short but effective and punchy stories that demonstrate the continuous state of depression, and are the list Allon was suggested to come up with. The stories show difficulties and violence at work, fear of losing aging parents, sexual misconduct, broken heart, drug use, parenting questions, and career hardships. 


(3) Three songs, of original composition and lyrics, that act as sad duets between Allon and Oyzis—those to be heard intimately by the spectators, after scanning QR codes. In the installation space, there's a 10-minute sound work, composed by voice messages Allon sent his psychologist, and that serves as the documentary element of the work, while the graphic novel itself evokes questions about mockumentary and documentary artwork. 

Over all of that, lay the hum of the war/genocide in Gaza and the northern part of Israel, and the political decomposing of the country, which raises the anxiety levels, and increases the intensity of depression. 
 

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Press HERE to listen to the over all score - pay attention - the file has some silent moment

The work was created as the MFA Thesis project and was presented in 2024 at the University of Haifa. It was made possible with scholarships from Haifa University, as well as the teacher's union (Irgun Hamorim), the teacher's academy Hotam, and the Ministry of Education. The project was supervised by Prof. Sharon Poliakine and Dr. Thalia Hoffman, and mentored by Prof. Roee Rosen. 

Photos: Ariel Warhaftig 
Sound - voices, mix, piano, and editing: Shani and Halel Broner 
Graphic design: Roei Regev and Avisar Goldman 
Special thanks: Abdissalam Sabi, Ruti Singer, Nikolas Veksler, Anna Bershtansky, The tech staff at the University - Yoav, Lior, Haim, and Shai, Shimon and Didi Allon, Eran Inbar, Oz Gore. 


This work is dedicated to Shimon and Miriyam Allon 

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