Abstract

‘Leave your psychopathic behaviour outside this playground, there are small children here’, screamed a furious father at Malki Tesler, an Israeli artist staging a public intervention in the center of Tel Aviv’s Meir Park, where she peacefully sat, physically blocking the playground’s slide and preventing children from using the amenity. Tesler’s site-specific work is an antagonistic act that evolved into a participatory event, thereby blurring the lines between public art, performance, and activism. Predicated on a determined refusal to play and a public presentation of a vulnerable body, this act instigated an incredibly violent reaction by children and chaperones alike, and therefore exposed the fragility of the so-called Israeli social bond and the exclusionary practices that sustain it.

摘要

以色列艺术家马尔基·特斯勒 (Malki Tesler) 在特拉维夫的梅尔公园 (Meir Park) 中心进行公开干预，她平静地坐在那里，用身体挡住了操场的滑梯并阻止儿童使用该设施。特斯勒的场地特定作品是一种对抗行为，后来演变为一种参与性事件，从而模糊了公共艺术、表演和行动主义之间的界限。以坚决拒绝玩耍和公开展示脆弱的身体为前提，这一行为激起了儿童和监护人的难以置信的暴力反应，因此暴露了所谓的以色列社会纽带的脆弱性和维持它的排他性做法。