And One For Next Year.

Lila Chitayat
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Lila Chitayat

And One For Next Year. , – ongoing
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photography: Eitan Witkon for the Israel Museum, 2016
http://www.lilachitayat.com/portfolio-item/and-for-next-year/
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Description
A personal and unique birthday celebration with the hebrew custom of ‘raising the chair’ with the celebrator.

Visitors are asked a question: HOW OLD DO YOU FEEL?

they can choose any age from 1 to 120

once pressed, a large 1:1 scaled projection of a chair rising up and down appears

The Video is accompanied by sounds of a loving family calling out the years that went by till the celebration for the year to come appears with a party and confetti.
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    • Body and Psychology
      • affect
      • performativity
    • History and Memory
      • traditions
    • Religion and Mythology
      • rituals
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      • communities
      • individuality
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