U Asked Me to Dance
The National Museum, Krakow
curator: Neomi Aviv
January 2007

The performance in Krakow was an extension of the video installation presented at the Krolikarnia, Warsaw, in the "Raft of the Medusa" (group exhibition). The performance took place alongside the video installation. Lital was seated on the floor, surrounded by a circle of lit candles. The circles of candles and "Nest" implies to the form of "infinity" (∞). Lital wears a white nightgown. She takes a candle from the circle and while it's burning, she starts scraping its surface, using her fingers and a peeler (alternately). The wax slivers are being piled on her gown. When finished working with each candle, Lital spreads the slivers onto the projection surface at the bottom of the nest. Each time she takes a burning candle to scrape the circle of light, the wholeness of infinity is damaged and decreased. One circle is being sacrificed for the benefit of the other, the infinite becomes one, finite form. Performance of: Lital Dotan and Eyal Perry
Performer: Lital Dotan.