Our bed
curators: Leah Abir & Milana Gitzin-Adiram
Moby Museum, Israel
April 2008

The performance deals with the archeology of a relationship.
In the performance, the couple's mattress is dug by Dotan and it's inside layers are exposed.
The mattress is deconstructed, it's different materials seperated and than assembled in a different order.
This exposed territory of the mattress implies to the mechanisms that construct a couple relationship and at the same time point to it's fragility: fabric, sponge, threads, wires and supporting coil system, all framed and packed into a solid base.
These materials are all seperated and examined as objects of memorial- an object that holds the memory of mundane life.
The performance marks the risk it takes to examine the sexual and communication territory that exists as an exterritorial zone in the relationship- where the dialogue is stuttered, rough and suppressed.
The performance is built as a part of the Glasshouse project that deals with the concept of the "home" as a territory that hosts conventions of relationships and discusses the artificial seperation of private and public through emotional walls and thin curtains of physical existence.