ANAT BEN DAVID

Dr Anat Ben-David’s approach to time based work- music, performance and film, is founded in exploring the freedom of live improvisation combined with structural methods that relate to musical composition. Her background in experimental theatre (the school of Visual Theatre, Jerusalem) and as a member of electro–punk band and art collective Chicks On Speed, has led to projects such as Kairos OperaArt (commissioned for the opening of the new wing of Victoria and Albert Museum in 2017) where live electronic processing meets classical instrumentation in a fusion of mediums and genres. In her doctoral research Oscillation and Disturbance in the OpeRaArt (Kingston University, 2015) Ben David coined the term ‘OpeRaArt’ to explain her rearrangements of sound-text into musical compositions. Ben-David recent collaborations include Lina Lapelyte (winner of Venice Golden-Lion prize, 2019) James Oldham (Waste Paper Opera) Sean Ashton, opera singer Anna Dennis, poet Richard Scott, vocalist Sharon Gal and violinist Angharad Davies... Ben-David is an associate lecturer teaching art and performance at Central saint Martins, Royal Collage Of Art, as well as internationally.

 

My work moves between performance and sound/music modes. Experimental in approach, it establishes themes, structure and narratives through live performance, using methods that allow me to refine structures through improvisation. This is why my work fits into different contexts and genres: galleries/museums, music venues, improvisation spaces.( Anat ben-david)

 

 

https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/residents/anat-ben-david

https://vimeo.com/anatbendavid

https://vimeo.com/anatbendavid2002

 https://anatben-david.bandcamp.com

reviews:

https://thequietus.com/articles/27328-anat-ben-david-tzipora-review

 https://artreview.com/april-2014-review-anat-ben-david/

 https://thequietus.com/articles/16441-anat-ben-david-interview-chicks-on-speed-2

instegram: @anatbendavid2002

 

Web site note: This website features the work and collaborations of London based artist Anat Ben-David (b1970 in Jerusalem IL) the website (built in 2001) have gone off-line in 2017, and restored January 2025, it is constantly being updated- some of the links don’t work yet but will be soon. all the work’s rights reserved to Anat Ben-David (and her collaborators)

   

 

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