Nadav Assor creates videos, installations, performances, and objects. His work relates to cities, meditative concepts and technology. He was born in the US and grew up in Israel. Nadav collabortes with many artists and uses sound throughout his work. All of his projects are ongoing.
https://vimeo.com/3635609
Real time greenscreen rig, prepared construction material plates, industrial shelving, custom software, multiple projectors. Each piece is highly site-sensitive, as a different “tunnel” is constructed according to the materials and contexts present at the location of the performance.
http://www.nadassor.net/2009/09/strip-north-spaulding-avenue/
Nadav rode his bicycle for 12 miles on a Chicago street crossing 7 neighborhoods scanning the street-scape with a side-mounted video camera. He then created an installation presenting a fragmented video panorama, constructed of consecutive moving frames from that single traveling shot, spatially laid out next to each other so that each slice shows a moment a few seconds behind that of it’s neighbor.
http://www.nadassor.net/2008/01/razor-2008/
“Razor” is a part of his ongoing investigation into the application of sculptural, semi-violent though miniaturized gestures, to live video, generated from his own body.
Subject vs content:
Tunneling
a video is projected onto the wall showing several layers of materials through what appears to be a hole that has been carefully ripped apart. The artist is ripping the materials apart in real time while the video is being projected onto the wall. Layer after layer the artist tears each apart to conceal what is underneath. Sound is also layered throughout the piece, which is what seems to be general household sounds. You can see the artists hands moving throughout the layers. Each layer is an industrial material and the viewer feels like the artist may be breaking through materials in a wall.
One reason the artist may have made this piece is to show how materials can be considered interesting in and of themselves, things we look at everyday and disregard as normal can be looked at differently.
Another meaning behind the piece could be that we are always trying to uncover something but we are often so distracted by everything around us (the sounds) that it is hard to stay focused on uncovering who we really are.
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