ROUNTABLE RECORDINGS
BEYOND THE SKIN project deals with the broad field of skin, and consists of a laboratory and exhibitions.
As part of the laboratory, hybrid meetings are hold, with the participation of artists, scientists and commentators from a variety of academic institutions, museums, galleries, journals and social media hubs from all over the world.
COMING SOON MORE OF OUR VENICE ROUNTABLE RECORDINGS
01
Layers
Date: July 2, 2024
Venue: Machon Hamaim Gallery
Topics: The skin consists of several layers, each with its own structure and meanings. Embarking from a talk on the importance of the polarity of collagen fibers to skin grafting and on fundamentals of upholstery, participants share existential contemplations on coats and deposits.
Invited Participants: Yitzhak Zilinsky, Luigi Viola, Suzy Sureck, Pnina Shor, Revital Arbel, Fridemann Dermstadt, Omri Goren, Michael Lazar, Ratna Gandhi, Nicole Valasquez, John Gian Pozi, Dany Shein, Avi Rosen,
Amir Cohen, Yehudah Roth, Doron Polak
02
Recreation
Date: July 9, 2024
Venue: Roth's Studio
Topics: Skin is repeatedly re-created and re-shaped, as demonstrated by the snake's skin and with other animals. Discussion evolved on physical and metaphysical regeneration, and how skin depicts as a marker of restitution.
Invited Participants: Luigi Viola, Lee Yanor, Revital Arbel, Fridemann Dermstadt, John Gian Pozi, Dany Shein, Avi Rosen, Nicola Rae, Paul Malone, Moshe Vollach, Yiannos Economou, Dror Hibsh, Michel Platnic, Hans Brandenburg, Norma Drimmer, Amir Cohen, Yehudah Roth,
Doron Polak
03
Future
Date: August 6, 2024
Venue: The Technion
Topics: Cyberspace is a novel coating developing in our external and internal worlds, led by mathematics and computations, swiveling between future and past, between the human and animal worlds and the various environments on earth and in space. Archeology reveals the past and elaborate on progress, animals demonstrate different emphases and pace, and novel musical instruments, symbolically made of skin, may lead our convoy.
Invited Participants: Avi Rosen, Freddy Bruckstein, Yasmine Bergner, Avivit Segal, Tirza Valentine, Revital Arbel, Fridemann Dermstadt, Moshe Vollach, Yiannos Economou, Hans Brandenburg, Henie Westbrook,
Amir Cohen, Yehudah Roth, Doron Polak
04
Memory, Movement
Date: August 14, 2024
Venue: Zemack Gallery
Topics: Motion is emphatically related to motion – on the surface, underneath, parts of the body or the entire body. These movements reflect our thoughts and feelings, and as such also manifest our memories. The memory is reflected on our ever changing skin. Cinema is one way of symbolizing the skin organ.
Invited Participants: Rina Schenfeld, Lee Yanor, Yaron Haezrachi, Tamar Schori, Naseem Darbey, Revital Arbel, Fridemann Dermstadt, Yigal Ozeri, Josef Haik, Francis Haik, Yiannos Economou,
Dror Hibsh, Michael Lazar, Yuval Orr,
Alon Gur-Arie, Amir Cohen, Yehudah Roth,
Doron Polak
05
DermArtology
Date: September 5, 2024
Venue: The Academy of Fine Arts, Giudecca, Venice.
Topics: The skin is our most visible organ, whose health and beauty dermatology strives for. participants will address relationships between medicine and fine arts, the art and science of wax moulages, surrealism and dermatology and dermoscopy.
Invited Participants (interim list): Catherine Hug, Sabina Carraro, Uwe Wollina, Wilhelm Stolz, Günter Burg, Esther Azizi.
06
Relics
Date: September 6, 2024
Venue: The Academy of Fine Arts, Giudecca, Venice.
Topics: Ancient (the Judea Desert) scrolls, phylactery and door posts, sacred skin/leather-related artifacts, skin/leather attributes in religious art, book covers, ancient printing techniques on leather, mummification, scalps, memory, holiness, magic, power, counterfeits, economics, relationships to current or political affairs.
Invited Participants (interim list): Pnina Shor, Riccardo Caldura, Luigi Viola, Ratna Gandhi,
Avi Sperber, Henie Westbrook, Yehudah Roth.
07
Wearable Senses
Date: September 6, 2024
Venue: The Academy of Fine Arts, Giudecca, Venice.
Topics: Skin is a focus to versatile sensations and probably of some embodied cognition. Parallel meaning may be found in novel textile-based expressions and uses.
Invited Participants (interim list): Yolanda Antal, Naseem Darbey, Tamar Schori.
08
Fauna and Flora
Date: Saturday, September 7, 2024
Venue: The Academy of Fine Arts, Giudecca, Venice.
Topics: Following reflections in the animal and plant worlds, the participants will describe lessons learnt and possible applications in both arts and science.
Invited Participants (interim list): Nicola Rae,
Paul Malone, Yiannos Economou, Ori Topaz.
09
Remodeling
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
Venue: The Academy of Fine Arts, Giudecca, Venice.
Topics: Changing skin deployment in surgery affects identity, reveals sad past of pain and suffering and places genetics and epigenetics in a horrific or a beautiful setting.
Invited Participants (interim list):
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock, Dror Hibsh,
Nurit Harel.
10
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Shulamit Kreitler
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
Volatile cognition - Meaning of skin, symbols and attentive creativity.
11
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Amos and Noa Gilhar
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024
Retirement and progress with the Gilhars - Dermatology research scientist and his artist daughter discuss aging, retirement and their interactions.
12
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Ariela Hafner
Date: Friday, September 6, 2024.
Hidradenitis suppurativa - A debilitating ailment and its heart-rending photorepresentation.
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13
1-ON-1 Studio talk With Nitsan Primor
Date: Sunday, September 8, 2024.
Pruritus (ìtching) - Attending both agony and pleasure, a remedy was developed and then some art works.