Welcome

About Resilience is a research and production project that started in Israel in May 2011 and will continue in Europe until 2013.

In its agenda, this project wishes to challenge identities. Seeing repetitive patterns as a manifestation of identities, a methodology of acknowledging and formulating patterns as bodies is implemented on every aspect of the project’s construction. Using a principle of deviation, About Resilience offers a moment of reformulating these patterns, introducing in their body and in front of their identity a temporary otherness.

This project sees itself as a patterned identity as well, and therefore takes the responsibility of including also itself in this practice. In this way, it provokes a reflection on the capacities for change of its environment and of itself, foregrounding and formulating a practice of resilience.

In physics, resilience is a measurable quality, such as weight or volume, referring to the ability of a body to return to its original form after being bent, compressed, or stretched. Therefore, a body that practices its own resilience is one that constantly sensitizes, responds and appropriates itself to its immediate environment, while keeping its integrity of form and singularity. It does so for its survival over time, subservient to its internal movement of transformation and collected knowledge, in order to be able to continue to move between different environments, contexts, and bodies.

(Read more about the practice of resilience here)

To practice resilience, this body of work constantly moves through different environments, contexts and bodies. It wishes to generate a dialog in all of these encounters, a dialog to be embodied and documented through it. Moving from street demonstration, to a lecture performance, a movie, a participatory workshop, a video installation, and an exhibition; It builds during time a self-documentation of a body in progress, coming into dialog with the different encounters it generates.

This website is another form of communication. This platform unfolds the project various forms and invites you to deposit your own experiences and thoughts, words and images, directly in its body.

Welcome. Really. You are invited to find your own participation in this platform, and to use this space as you wish.

About Resilience first period started in Israel in May 2011 with the project About Falling.