"Mobile Archive" project prolonged till May 17

The project "Mobile Acrhive" in St Petersburg has been prolonged. The works by Israeli and international video artists will be on view at the PRO ARTE Foundation till May 17th.  

The Mobile Archive is a traveling collection of Israeli video art that belongs to the Israeli Center for Digital Art and contains more than 2500 titles. The archive includes video art, sound art, film, and documentation of performances and installations that have been exhibited at the center, as well as other works by leading  Israeli artists in the field of media art. Many of the works are linked thematically through questions of identity, militarism, and nationalism, as well as other sociopolitical issues relevant to the region.

One of the main principles of the Mobile Archive is its accessibility and openness to the public at large: the archive is presented in a video library format, where each visitor will be able to choose freely from hundreds of existing video works, and view the selected pieces. Thus, the Mobile Archive raises the issue of the active role of the audience as well as touches upon the important question of storing and passing knowledge in the society today, including the mission of archives in these processes.

Even though Israeli artists working with video are widely known throughout the world, so far they haven’t had a massive exposure in Russia. By bringing the Mobile Archive to St Petersburg TOK offers the Russian audience with a unique opportunity to browse through one of the world’s top collections of Israeli video art and see works by such internationally acclaimed Israeli artists as Sigalit Landau, Yael Bartana, Roee Rosen, Guy Ben Ner and many others.  

Mobile Archive will be located at PRO ARTE Foundation, the leading institution in contemporary art in St Petersburg that organizes about 250 art events a year including festivals, exhibitions and educational events and a school for young visual artists from April 7th to May 17th, 2014