Nirith Nelson
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, History and Theory, Faculty Member
- Design History and Theory, Contemporary Art, Narrative Theory, Comics and Graphic Novels, Contemporary Literature, Photography, and 12 moreDigital Arts, Manga and Anime Studies, David Claerbout, Photographic Now, Art History, Design, Visual Studies, Curatorial Practice (Art), Curation, Curatorial Studies and Practice, Curating contemporary art, and Art History, Exhibition History, Museum and Curating Studiesedit
- Nirith Nelson is a contemporary art curator and lecturer. She was the director of the JCVA residency program (www.jcv... moreNirith Nelson is a contemporary art curator and lecturer. She was the director of the JCVA residency program (www.jcva.org), where international artists and curators are invited for an uninterrupted spate of creative work. The residency promotes cross-cultural dialogue by providing interested residents with recommendations and connections to personally-tailored opportunities.Nelson curates exhibitions in the fields of contemporary art and design. At the debut of her career, she has worked 9 years at the Israel Museum where she curated and lectured. After which she served, for 14 years, as the art adviser for the Jerusalem Foundation and in that frame has initiated two not-for-profit contemporary art galleriesedit
Table Manners is a multidisciplinary project combining art, theater and food. The art exhibition touches the points of redundancy and of meager, that in certain cases become close at mind. Roughly, one can notice three under currents in... more
Table Manners is a multidisciplinary project combining art, theater and food. The art exhibition touches the points of redundancy and of meager, that in certain cases become close at mind.
Roughly, one can notice three under currents in the exhibition: the physical - where food converses with flesh; the obsessive - culinary preferences which becomes part of a ceremony or of character; the overflow - the excessive in size, matter and approach.
Roughly, one can notice three under currents in the exhibition: the physical - where food converses with flesh; the obsessive - culinary preferences which becomes part of a ceremony or of character; the overflow - the excessive in size, matter and approach.
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Many of the systems and processes we encounter are changing in a continuous pattern of spiral repetition influenced by past trends. Recurring motifs that occur both in philosophical thought and in the visual arts manifest observable... more
Many of the systems and processes we encounter are changing in a continuous pattern of spiral repetition influenced by past trends. Recurring motifs that occur both in philosophical thought and in the visual arts manifest observable patterns of change. This essay analyses such a movement in design and relates to two exhibitions where this trend is brought to the fore as a central theme in contemporary design: New Olds curated by Volker Albus and Post Fossil curated by Lidewij Edelkoort. The master hand-carved wooden chair of Maarten Baas, which is a copy of the common “classical” mass-produced plastic chair, stands as an excellent example of this spiral pattern.
