01/01/2022–30/06/2022
House.Building
In the coming months, the Dira Residency will host the Beit.Binain program - a research and action group that brings together five creators who combine design and multidisciplinary art in daily social action. The program, which takes place in shared buildings throughout the city and in an apartment in Beit Liebling, is an artistic action that aims to expand the concept of the shared building while investigating and observing through the content worlds they come from. The purpose of this action is to create a change in the creative process of the participants alongside the development of new practices for action in the buildings themselves.
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Most people in the world today live in cities and buildings, which were invented as the most efficient solution to the urban residential system. This idea requires us, the residents of the building, to be partners in the rules, constraints and spaces closest to our private apartment. The circumstances of the last period made us question the shared way of life, the opportunity and the possibilities it offers us in the shared domestic space, on the private side.
The Beit.Benin plan is a joint initiative of Beit Liebling and the Authority for Environmental Quality and Sustainability and concerns a renewed discussion of the concept of the shared building and an examination of different ways to encourage initiatives by residents in the city to create a beneficial and healthy living environment and promote a sustainable lifestyle. Along with the residency program that takes place at Beit Liebling, the creators of the program will accompany the buildings selected as part of a call in the near future. The program will make it possible to examine and actually experience practice in the field by appointing an accompanying artist for each of the participating buildings. During this period, the apartment in Beit Liebling will be a kind of information agency for the program and at the same time a basis for discussion, research and action.
Ohad Kabri, Mittal Katz Minervo, Elit Krays, Lilac Shtiat, Alon Sharig
The program team
Director of the program: Anat Levy
Artistic management and curation: Shira Levy Binyamini
Accompanying the Authority for Environmental Quality and Sustainability: Anat Ehud
Preliminary Research Phase: Dana Moore




