"A Soldier's Dream" is a video installation and live performance premiered at the Stockholm Fringe Festival.
The work is influenced by poems of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, and aims to give a visual personal adaptation to his writing.
The space is constructed from rows of miniature white beds, between which the performer is dancing in times, a projection of a video piece with the sound of Darwish reading, and on a closed-by corner a table covered with filled glasses, from which the performer is sipping and spitting in endless sickles, on the video and in-live.
For some time I've been reading Mahmoud Darwish's poetry.
Being an Israeli I was amazed how many things I have discovered through that on my "Homeland", how close I felt to his words, and how painful it was. His words, have become, to me, a life-time journey, and this installation "A Soldier's Dream" is part of this journey.
The poetic, the never ending, floating magical words, are living side by side with reality, with the aching sand grains of this land.
This are his words to me, and these are the soldiers' dreams, and this is art in such moments, on this torn lands.
"We live near the livings", Darwish once told to a friend of mine,
"We live near the livings".
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