Iruach Project

17/9/2020–26/6/2021

Meet our first guests in the residency program, the apartment at Liebling House: Anat Litvin and Sally Kristal. The two will stay in the apartment from September 1 to December 2020. Anat is an artist and researcher, who has been engaged in research and creation of residency programs as an artistic-social medium for over a decade and is the founder of the Homebase project and the Eroh platform. She is a doctoral student at the Technion in the city and regional planning track, and a scholarship holder in the Ariane de Rothschild program for doctoral students. Sally is a multidisciplinary artist, who draws inspiration from traditions of craft and local knowledge, body movement and performance, and works in the tension between presence and absence.

The artists Anat Litvin and Sally Kristal created in the apartment another layer in the Aruch project, which deals with critical practices of artistic hospitality in the city and an attempt to redefine the role of the artist and art in creating a different urbanity. The Iruh platform is part of Litvin's doctoral research in the Department of Urban Planning at the Technion under the guidance of Prof. Rachel Kloosh.

The spaces of the apartment contain two levels: the historical - the residential apartment of the Shuyer family from 1936, and the contemporary - a residential apartment in a public cultural center, through which the two will examine the relationship between the private space and the public space and between the house and the city. They will trace the potential inherent in the act of hosting and staying in the space in the light of the changing urban reality, when the house emerges as a new public and rural space.