Trembling Time, 2001
One channel video and sound installation
Video projection
DVD/ Colour/ Sound
Soundtrack by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Duration: 6'20"
Edition 1/ 5 + 2 A.P.

Exhibitions

2012 May 31 - Sep 7 Daily Reports The National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest, RO

2010 Yesterday Will Be Better-Taking memory into the future, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Germany

screening fee: 350 euro (AVEcom festival Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem)
2010 27 feb. Tate Modern, London, UK
2009 Nov. 3-Jan. 11 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, JN
2009 sept. 12-Jan 10 Hugging and Wrestling: Contemporary Israeli Photography and Video, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, US
2009 Aug 17-Aug 31 As Is, Mostra di arte Contemporanea di Israele, Roma, IT
2009 Jan 10-Mar 22 Gemeente Museum Den Haag, Den Haag, NL
2008 Dec 7-Apr 19 Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck, D
2008 Oct 19- Jan 26 P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Centre, NY, US
2008 Oct 7-Mar 1Telit Wireles Solutions, Rome, IT
2008 Jul 3 Tate Modern, London, UK
2008 May 8-Jul 6 Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, CA
2007 Sep 22-Nov 4 Nadezda Petrovic, Serbia
2007 May 26-Aug 19 In the Eye of the Storm, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
2007 Apr 15-Apr 29 Stutter and Twitch, CCS Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, NY, US
2007 Mar 10-Aug 5 The Jewish Museum, NY, US
2007 Feb 14-May 1 Kunsthalle Energasse, Vienna, Austria
2006 Sep 26-Nov 26 Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT
2006 Sep 24-Nov 29 Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, DE
2006 Jun 9-Sep 3Kunstverein Hamburg, DE
2006 Apr 4-Jul 30 The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Fransisco, US
2005 Sep 1-Nov 1 Marko Sramenkovic, Serbia
2005 Sep 24-Dec 24 Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, TU
2005 Jun 3-Aug 5 The Israel Museum and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, DE
2005 Apr 9-May 8 Yellow Bird Gallery, New York, US
2005 Jan 13-May 1 Kunstmuseum BONN, Bonn, DE
2004 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, CA
2004 Oct 8-Feb 14 ONUFRI, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, ALB
2004 Sep 11-Oct 24 Invisible silence exhibition, List Art Center, Rhode Island, US
2004 Jul 17-Sep 12  Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
2004 Jun 23-Sep 12 Jeu de Paume/ Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, FR
2004 May 18-Jul 6 Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2004 May 6-Dec 17 Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, DE
2004 Mar 19-Jun 25 Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, JP
2003 Sep 5-Nov 5 Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2003 Aug 14 Galeria Comercial, San Juan, PR
2003 Jun 2-Sep 7 Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE
2003 Apr 9-May 30 GBK Arnhem/AveCome Festival, Arnhem, NL
2003 Apr 9-Jun 15 NGBK/ Projekt Wonderyears, Berlin, DE
2003 Mar 29-Apr 19 Sheffield Independent Film Studio, Sheffield, UK
2003 Mar 14-May 1 Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK
2003 Mar 7-Apr 27 O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Vienna, AU
2003 Jan 10-Mar 17 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, DE
2003 Jan 10-Mar 17 Galerie de Stadt Schwaz, Tirol, AT
2002 Nov 15-Dec 29 Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR
2002 Brugge, Cultural Capital of Europe, Brugge, B
2002 Sep 5-Sep 30 Champ Libre, Montreal, CAN
2002 Aug 28-Nov 30 Fion NG, Hong Kong, CH
2002 Jun 29-Sep 29 Museum beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, NL
2002 May 25-Aug 24 European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt am Main, D
2002 Mar 3-Jun 29 The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
2002 May 16 De Paviljoens, Almere, NL
2002 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL

In a single shot, Trembling Time depicts the moment of silence on the day commemorating those who have fallen in Israel's wars. Each year, throughout the country, sirens remind Israeli's to observe the 'Soldiers Memorial Day'. The camera is directed from a bridge toward traffic flowing below. It shows cars coming from a single direction on the multilane highway. It is dark outside, and the scenery is lit up only by the cars' headlights. In the beginning, all the cars drive along at various speeds. With the sounds of the sirens, however, the vehicles gradually slow down and eventually come to a complete standstill. Doors open, the passengers get out and pause beside their cars for a moment of silence in collective remembrance. Following the interruption, they immediately get back into their cars and resume their driving. In addition to the suggestive use of sound, Bartana employs technical alienation effects such as slow motion, repetition and cross-fading, so that the images- some moving faster, some moving slower - flow into one another in various layers. Trembling Time communicates the emotionally charged ritual of the statedecreed minute of silence as both visual and an aesthetic experience, while simultaneously formulating a distanced, critical reflection upon the collective behaviour pattern of a nation. (from: Yael Bartana, exh.cat. Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hatje Cantz, 2007, p. 49)
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