Awkward Bastards 2 - Radical Practice
23/3/2017
Directed by: Dr Maiada Aboud
Performed by: Dr Ben Spats
Birmingham, United Kingdom
A performance-based project relating to the artists’ political and cultural backgrounds and to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A siren is played in Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day. The words are from Psalm 133 and can be translated as: Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
Project: Judaica
Song: ‘Hineh ma tov’
Director: Maiada Aboud
Practitioner: Ben Spatz
Date: 23 March 2017
Venue: The MAC, Birmingham
Performance Duration: 5 minutes
(video link below)
https://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/projects/absence-awkward-bastards-2/