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All Golems Are Real Golems: Val Schlosberg And Coral Cohen
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We hear from two artists whose work is featured in A Fence Around The Torah.
Val Schlosberg's contribution to the exhibit is a series of clay vessels called golems. Golems are creatures from Jewish mythology that are created using clay and magic in order to protect Jewish communities. Val considers "the golem not only as a vengeful fighter of fascism, but also as an enlivened piece of earth and as a metaphor for the human body."
Coral Cohen is part of a four-artist multimedia installation called I mean...how do you define safety? The installation explores, as the artists wrote in their statement, "what 'safety' means for Jews from Arab lands, who after hundreds to thousands of years of relative safety in the region, were torn from their homes, customs, languages, and ancestral roots upon the establishment of the state of Israel." Coral Cohen devised and directed an audio play along with writer and performer Hannah Aliza Goldman called In The Kitchen.
Val Schlosberg, writer, artist, and educator currently based in Zhigaagoong, also known as Chicago, and working towards ordination as a Hebrew Priestess at the Kohenet Institute
Coral Cohen, director, writer, and performance deviser born and raised in Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, New York, whose short film Wresting Place will premiere this year
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