YIFTAH PELED
PERFORMANCES
Performance and Participation
COLARES
2017- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShvqC_G_DMQ
Presented at the Galeria de Arte e Pesquisa, GAP, Vitória , ES. A collaborative project between the Espirito Santo Federal University and the Alanus University of Arts and Social Science, Germany.
Participatory environment. Composed of a a printed proposition; two supports with necklaces and pendants in the form of black vans from the Coroner's office (Instituto Médico Legal) and white armored bank cars; space for taking photos of the public participating in the artistic proposition that could choose the colar to wear: black or white.
This project was part of the group exhibition Frágil Fina Pele da Civilização/ Fragile, Thin Skin of Civilization. The theme of the exhibition was the police strike in the state of Espirito Santo, in February 2017, when the homicide rate of black young people jumped to199 death in 10 days.
DELICATESSEN+00
2011 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-FckDjGsk
Performed in the Ybakatu Art Gallery during the Brazilian Collective Art Week exhibition of Federação da Indústria do Estado do Paraná (FIEP) in Curitiba, PR and at the Espirito Santo Federal University, Vitoria.
The Delicatessen + 00 participative project promotes the creation of plaster forms produced from the “empty” space of the packaging of sweets purchased and brought by the participantes with their purchase receipt. The project deals with the value of the void and the relationship between the gross and the net quantity of packaging. Through a calculation performed with the value of the product presented, a new value is assigned and stamped on the receipt of the product brought by the participant. The participant is induced to profit from the emptiness of the packaging and takes home the form produced by him/her.
PARA ELA
2009 - 2014- : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zhF9p5jg6E
Performed at Contemporão, Performance Art Space and at the Art Museum (Musa) of the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba.
Under the sound of a box drum, the artist enters the space with green painted arms and throws three watermelons in the air in sequence. When the watermelons explode on the floor, ping pong balls spread out in space, creating an amplified sound effect. When watermelons are scattered, the public is invited to taste them.
PROJETO PORTAL
2008 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKeVrc2ltU
Performed at Barra da Lagoa beach, Florianópolis, 2008, and at Camburi beach, Vitória.
A portal on wheels is taken through the city to the beach. A collective and participative performance of passing through the portal towards a dip in the sea is performed.
ENTRE? TURISMO DEFINITIVO
2015 - 2019
Performance Lecture presented at the Art Museum of the Espirito Santo Federal University, Vitoria, ES and at the annual Performance event Verbo, at the Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo and at the Instituto Chão, São Luiz, MA.
The lecture is about the relationship between performance and participation - an attempt to identify elements of synthesis between these practices. Poetics of varied artists are demonstrated, in addition to the process of self-promotion of the speaker/artist. The action is a game about power, the place of speech, the sound and possible gaps among them.
ALTA TENSÃO
2005 - 2008 - 2011
Presented at the Performance Art Event of Cruz & Sousa Museum, Florianópolis with Adriana Barreto and Teresa Siewerdt, at Verbo Anual Performance Event of Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo with Maíra Valente e Teresa Siewerdt and at the Performance Festival of the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro with Flora Pozzobon and Carolina Sulis
Under a Felix Mendelssohn wedding march in the space, three performers holding hands, with cardboard boxes on their heads show up. On the boxes, images of High Voltage plates. One of the performers wears gloves and holds an enlarged wishbone. The performers approximate a visitor, hold his/her hands, put the object on his/her neck, and invite him/her to walk with them in a collective wedding march.
Turismo Definitivo/ Rio
2012/ 2017- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mRYYgXlm5g
Presented at the GAP galery , UFES, Vitoria, ES, and Galeria Ybakatu, Curitiba, PR.
This participatory artwork consists of a proposition, hooks on the wall, and a 2-meter-high plywood replica of the Christ the Redeemer statue. The articulation in the arms and hands allows the figure of Christ to close its arms, enabling the participant to receive an embrace. The artwork/proposition problematizes the concept of public art transformed into a makeshift contraption of a size close to that of the human body. The embrace is activated by the user, who needs to exert some physical force to enter this protective niche. The participation proposes a humorous and existential experience in relation to religion and the generation of affection.
EMPURRA EMPURRA
2019- https://youtu.be/cncwe5Jeij4
Performed in the Cardeal Arcoverde Street, Pinheiros.
A Mobile wooden structure on wheels with a cut-out image of the monument "Homenagem as Bandeiras" settled in São Paulo, SP. The title is about the popular nickname of the statue, related to the effort of the figures to push a boat with the help of horses. Here the push receives a decolonial sense once the structure is pushed in the opposite direction. The mobile structure is fragile and one can see the images of the horses only on one side showing the heroic narrative as a montage.