Harakrok
1995 - Sculpture
Harakrok is a gigantic sculptural performance that combines the process of assembling a gigantic praying mantis sculpture along with live rock music.
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The Zik Book
20-09-2007
The book Zik Group: Twenty Years of Work considers the group activities from 1985 to 2005. It is edited and designed as a product in its own right, with a distinctive visual presence and an outlook which is not limited to description and documentation. The book was awarded the 2006 Design Award.
The Zik Group
Zik group was founded in 1985 by several artists, most of them graduates of the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. In 1990, the non-profit organization Zik for Visual Arts was established, which is still active. Since then the group has also had its own studio spaces. Throughout the years, central activity modes have been preserved: joint interdisciplinary work, relying on regular meetings, and focusing most saliently on the development of sculptural structures and concepts into live performances. The passing years have also seen significant changes: the group shifted from large outdoor performances to indoor ones, and keeps wandering between them; its visual design work, independent of performance, has expanded; group membership has grown, their professions have become more varied, and the group has turned to new directions – cinema, new media, and integral combinations of sculpture, performance, music and sound.
Work in the Zik group responds not only to a professional model but to a social one. The members gather twice a week in a hangar near Jerusalem. Membership in the group is manifested, first and foremost, by regular participation in these meetings, as well as members' desire to belong. The group, whose size has varied over the years, presently includes ten members (one of them female) and a production manager.