On this, my twelfth trip to Israel, I finally made it to Tel Aviv. My only goal was to eat at the Thai House. Everything else was a bonus and oh, what a lot of bonus it was!
We started out with a trip to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I had kinda forgotten what its like to go to a real museum. I was forcefully reminded when I got too close to a painting and tripped the alarm. Three times.
The museum was followed by a trip to Carmel Market, which proved disappointing (lots of junk, all made in China). Less disappointing was The Bun, which was inventive and seriously delicious asian fusion. We walked from there to the Bauhaus Center, where we learned all about the Bauhaus movement which was, from what I understand, a movement to "build buildings that are different from other buildings". On the way there, we passed the Dizengoff Fountain and a man that may or may not have been eaten by the pigeons he was feeding. All I know is that when we came back through a few minutes later, the pigeons were still there and the man had suspiciously disappeared.
We closed out the evening with a visit to the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion, a performance art venue. The coolest exhibit was by Janet Cardiff and involved 40 speakers set up. From each came one voice of Thomas Tallis' 40 part Spem in alium (which is amazing and you should listen to it right now). It was interesting because the voice coming from whatever speaker you were next to would come in and out, depending on whether that singer was singing or not. Which led to a guessing game - where are the tenors? Baritones? Small boys who can still sing really really high? (Tallis composed during an era when women did not sing).
The least cool was by Alona Rodeh piece with piped in music horns and a stage and lights that got brighter or dimmer and were intended to draw the watcher onstage, to "explore the potential experience of spectatorship". We stayed at the Pavilion for quite awhile and the horns, which were loud and audible two stories up from the exhibit are now annoyingly etched in my memories.
Day two in Tel Aviv was spent exploring Jaffa, with it's churches, mosques, port and ice cream stores. Jaffa was where Andromeda was tied to the rocks and later rescued by Perseus. It was where Jonah boarded a boat to Tarshish, to escape his missionary transfer. It is also the site of Peter's vision of the clean and unclean foods, which led to the gospel being preached to gentile and Jew. After all the hard work of wandering around Jaffa and eating ice cream, we headed back to Tel Aviv to lounge on the beach. I discovered that incredibly itchy, peeling, sunburned skin comes off quite nicely after a short soaking in the Mediterranean.
We started out with a trip to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I had kinda forgotten what its like to go to a real museum. I was forcefully reminded when I got too close to a painting and tripped the alarm. Three times.
me, in 20 richer years
The museum was followed by a trip to Carmel Market, which proved disappointing (lots of junk, all made in China). Less disappointing was The Bun, which was inventive and seriously delicious asian fusion. We walked from there to the Bauhaus Center, where we learned all about the Bauhaus movement which was, from what I understand, a movement to "build buildings that are different from other buildings". On the way there, we passed the Dizengoff Fountain and a man that may or may not have been eaten by the pigeons he was feeding. All I know is that when we came back through a few minutes later, the pigeons were still there and the man had suspiciously disappeared.
mmm...braised beef burger
cannot take him anywhere
should've saved you old man...
We closed out the evening with a visit to the Helena Rubinstein Pavillion, a performance art venue. The coolest exhibit was by Janet Cardiff and involved 40 speakers set up. From each came one voice of Thomas Tallis' 40 part Spem in alium (which is amazing and you should listen to it right now). It was interesting because the voice coming from whatever speaker you were next to would come in and out, depending on whether that singer was singing or not. Which led to a guessing game - where are the tenors? Baritones? Small boys who can still sing really really high? (Tallis composed during an era when women did not sing).
so cultured
we succumbed to temptation and shuffled off to buffalo for our spectators
some guy was taking picture after picture of the crowd on the stairs...this is the face he got in every single one
the performance artists were to press up against the wall with all available surfaces of their body, an effort which "becomes erotic over time" - terrifying
Day two in Tel Aviv was spent exploring Jaffa, with it's churches, mosques, port and ice cream stores. Jaffa was where Andromeda was tied to the rocks and later rescued by Perseus. It was where Jonah boarded a boat to Tarshish, to escape his missionary transfer. It is also the site of Peter's vision of the clean and unclean foods, which led to the gospel being preached to gentile and Jew. After all the hard work of wandering around Jaffa and eating ice cream, we headed back to Tel Aviv to lounge on the beach. I discovered that incredibly itchy, peeling, sunburned skin comes off quite nicely after a short soaking in the Mediterranean.
poor Andromeda's rocks
the house from which Christianity was spread to the world
when can I move here?
1 comment:
Spem in Alium is by far my favorite choral work and one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. It would be neat to hear it performed in the round like it's meant to be heard. Even cooler if I could perform it myself! I'll sing the little boy part.
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