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Welcome Home
Photograph Vanda Playford
oreet ashery

Live art, Interdisciplinary, Site-specific, Interactive

SIZE OF COMPANY
Generally 2 on the road

SCALE OF VENUE
Flexible, from intimate to large, site-specific

PERMANENT STAFF
Artist/Director
Oreet Ashery

ARTISTIC POLICY
Oreet Ashery produces site-specific work with the audience as participants, considering the historical, social and architectural context of the space. The work is socially engaged, issue-based, humorous and accessible as well as being dark and political. Ashery employs a fluidity of media and a fluid state of identity and self. The work includes live art, video, sound, interaction and text.

REVIEW EXTRACTS
'Troubling and tentative and unsupervised.' Village Voice, USA

'Instead of hiding in the studio pontificating about sexuality, religion and the like, Ashery is willing to get face to face with the public and act as a mirror to their reactions to these murky subjects.' Sleazenation

'I emerge, tingling with the thrill of a close shave with an alive fetish.' Circa Art Magazine

CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Welcome Home A site specific performance/gathering event looking at notions of immigration, (no)returning and disappearance. In 2006 Welcome Home included all or a combination of: Middle Eastern food, soldiers (actors) intruding on the audience, 30-minute stage performance of a memorial service to lost Palestinian village, Palestinian folk dancing, banners and DJs.

7 Acts of Love Site-specific works with alter ego ‘Marcus Fisher’, looking at cultural anxiety, including videos, internet, photographs and live interaction.

Will You Cook For Me? A dinner performance including combined Jewish and Middle Eastern food, video, audience participation in cooking, reading text, serving and eating food, and a cookery book with recipes by Ashery’s father.

FUTURE PRODUCTION
Back in 5 Minutes Performative multi projection video installation including a video on alternative architectural, economical and social structures that artists have created in various countries. As well as a video on artist who disappeared.

When Time Stood Still A film and a live event looking at the orthodox Jewish community in London and its relation to Art, to the city of London, and to the Middle East.

RECENT INTERNATIONALWORK
2006 Germany, Norway, Netherlands (Welcome Home) group shows USA, Poland, Germany, India, Israel (group shows)

WRAP-AROUND ACTIVITY
Talks, post-show discussions

TOURING AVAILABILITY
All productions available, details on request.