Because i have eyes

In my land i play with diamonds

2009-06-17T09:20:00.000-07:00

Mettemorphisis

2009-06-09T05:10:00.000-07:00

Tamy Ben-Tor

2009-05-26T05:44:00.002-07:00

Art in Review; Tamy Ben-Tor
from the New York Times

By KEN JOHNSON
Published: December 30, 2005

Exploration in the Domain of Idiocy
Zach Feuer
530 West 24th Street, Chelsea
Through Jan. 14
With her chameleonesque ability to transform herself into hilarious characters, the Israeli performance artist Tamy Ben-Tor could have a career in television like that of the similarly gifted Tracey Ullman.

Unfortunately, though it has good moments, the video featured in the main gallery looks like a labored effort to be more serious. Titled ''Girls Beware,'' it is an obscure and not very funny montage spoofing an Israeli public-service message advising girls to beware of Arab seducers and abductors.

Things are much funnier in the back gallery, where the perhaps less momentous theme is self-absorption. In a series of brief, talking-head portraits, Ms. Ben-Tor plays a hysterical construction contractor and a profoundly narcissistic conceptual artist who may remind you of more than one pretentious careerist you've known. In the astoundingly irreverent ''Women Talk About Adolf Hitler,'' a series of characters deliver harebrained thoughts about Hitler.

During the run of her exhibition, Ms. Ben-Tor is doing regular live performances. Last month she performed at the Upper East Side gallery Salon 94, playing, among other characters, a European professor discoursing on xenophobia and anti-Semitism and an American gospel singer singing out against Holocaust denial.

Ms. Ben-Tor may be too smart for the mainstream entertainment industry, but unlike, say, the young Matthew Barney, she is not so invested in the conventions of gallery art as to convince you that the visual art world is where she belongs. It will be interesting to see where she goes from here. KEN JOHNSON

Tammy Ben-thor

2009-05-26T05:44:00.001-07:00

I completely understand...

2009-05-25T17:27:00.000-07:00

Amazing.

2009-05-25T16:48:00.000-07:00

Welcome to russia

2009-05-25T16:21:00.000-07:00

wow

tv set design

2009-05-05T04:06:00.000-07:00

The set is all done and i have filmed it all. Wow. I n the end i got a lot of healp fom freinds and from a first year Iriini. Everyone has been so great.

Tv tv tv,I ma building a set at my freinds house. I have been looking up many set designs. I am going for somthign as simple as possible and magnegeble as well, because i am the only one in charge and the only one who is going to build it.

Explotions

2009-04-22T05:46:00.000-07:00

These images of explotions are all linked to the work of the archkiologist. She is fasinated with explotions and war. I am making them 3D and out of paper.

Russian doll

2009-03-25T08:11:00.000-07:00

I am opening like a russian doll, many many layers many differnet personalityes. The russian dolls with my heads on are going to be the logo for my tv show.

I having been looking at split personalittyes, here is a bit from an artical.

Split Personality

A split personality has nothing to do with schizophrenia, but more with Multiple Personality Syndrome (MPS). This is a psychiatric disorder that causes the sufferer's personality to divide into sub personalities, also known as alters. The alters have their own memory, and don't know of each other's existence. Consequently, the sufferer has episodes of amnesia.

The development of MPS is almost always triggered by severe abuse, including sexual abuse. During the traumatic experience the person becomes dissociated from the experience, becomes 'not there', and an alter personality takes over the pain. For every traumatic experience an alter is created. The alternating of the alters is easily recognized by the changing of the voice of the sufferer.

MPS is one of the most severe forms of defence mechanisms used to cope with extremely traumatic experiences.

Since 1994, MPS has been officially classified as Dissociative Identity Disorder in the DSM-IV2 as the alters are more identities, rather than personalities, based on dissociations.

As MPS (or DID) is believed to be very rare, not much research has been done. Therefore, not much is known of the prognosis. It is considered that the later the development of the alters takes place, the better. Another outcome of research is the belief that:

... after the age of 50, the alternating of the alters would spontaneously reduce3.

The experience gained by research is that sufferers who had re-integrated alters have a better recovery rate than sufferers with still divided alters. The integration of the alters is always accomplished by many years of intensive psychotherapy.

i wish i was there...

2009-03-23T16:55:00.000-07:00

I am very inspired by this video, amazing, and fun. Great an fresh, and that what i am looking for in my work as well.

Le bal

2009-03-18T02:25:00.000-07:00

This clip is from a longer film, all about personalityes and different earas. It is one of my favorite films, its very important because of the nice characther work, and the developments in the shots.

R kelly trapped in the closet

2009-03-18T01:55:00.000-07:00

i have been thinking about dobing the whole of my tv show, with different woices, i have not made a desition just yet, but i ramdomly feel over this. God it is good!

i love blind dates....

2009-03-18T01:49:00.000-07:00

I have been looking at smiple talkshows, to get inspired and to get familiar with the hole koncept of it.

Oh, ABBA don´t ever leave me!

2009-03-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

ABBA, froeve. First of all i am looking at their clothes and the quality of the filming, and its got that style to it that i really like. Their music is great as well, and i am thinking about how i am goin to make my music video about snails, ( a song that i have made)

I am dancing with my life!

2009-03-12T08:29:00.001-07:00

My presentation for the final project.

tv show

2009-03-11T17:00:00.000-07:00

tv show reasearch, wow that world is weird and wonderful.

josephine Baker

2009-02-24T07:12:00.000-08:00

Me and the little dance troup have been dansing and befor we reached the stage i had a cloce look at josephine baker, she is amazing.

Shake Shake

2009-02-16T08:13:00.000-08:00

Welcome forever to a globetrotter´s delight.
This it me, gorgie, niamh and molly dancing out legs of!

And sinigng

it is Me, Polly and Molly

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What someone wanted to be, but never became.

2009-01-21T10:17:00.000-08:00

The dancer

The airhostess

the hollywood actress
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This is the three diffenten charcthers i am working with, the dancer, the holywood actrerss, and the arihostess.

My dear drawings

2009-01-21T10:08:00.001-08:00

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here are some of my drawings. I draw from my imagination, but i have to try anf incorporate more obsevational drawing. I am a bit stuck in my drawing style, and i bothers me.
I have to be aware of the choise of draiwing methodes.

A whole new world

2009-01-15T03:58:00.000-08:00

This brings the nationalities together. The song from The little mermaide, sang in english an danish at the same time.

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Cindy Sherman

2009-01-14T02:43:00.000-08:00

I went to see a Cindy Sherman exhibition in Copenhagen. She fascinates me and i find her really useful to lean towards. She has an amazing power in the way she works with her surroundings. I keeps popping up in my brain, especially when i dressed up as Frida Carlo.

This is where i want to hide

2009-01-12T14:58:00.000-08:00

This drawing is drew after reading one of the moomin books. I am very absorbed in the whole universe that Tove Janson have created.
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Hannah Hock, oh so cool!

2009-01-12T14:47:00.000-08:00

This is a poster for a art project, a floating city in Copenhagen.
I think that Hannah Hock have a strong visual language that i fund very useful. I have cut out hair from a magazine and used it to create abstract shapes, working more on a surreal level.

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If i was to make a tatoo

2009-01-12T14:17:00.000-08:00

Me as a tree

2009-01-12T14:03:00.000-08:00

I am playing with identity and the possibilities it gives me becoming something else. What does it fee like being a Christmas tree? i am taking on a new role, and adding one more brick to me identity crises, and the confusion about being a human being.
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Do we look alike?

2009-01-12T10:22:00.000-08:00

Anthony and the Johnsons

2009-01-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

This drawing i drew listening to the song ´Twilight´ trying to give myself a more editorial project to work with.

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Something i just discovered, so grand and dramatic.

Twilight
I fall in the Harbor
Twilight
I fall in the hills
But here in the city
That never sleeps
I can fall
Through one's fingers

When the swan
Flies to heaven
Soaring through
The utmost fear
There's a feeling
That lingers in the afterwards
Will you ever return
Will you ever return
Will you ever return

Twilight
Twilight
Twilight

Twilight
I sit at all tables
With my candles
And angels besides
And I shall wait forever
As the day turns to night
Swallowed in the shadows that glow
Swallowed in the shadows that glow
Swallowed in the shadows that glow

When I sought out a light
And I knew darkness swallowed
I beseech, come to me
All alone, come to me

Twilight

Good old Louise Bourgeois

2009-01-12T09:45:00.000-08:00

I absolutly love her stuff. i talks to me and when i close my eye i can see some of her sculptures. I have been very inspired by her work, and that is visible in many of my drawings.

The french charmer

2009-01-12T09:23:00.000-08:00

Oh yes! I love this particularly because it is so badly made. To me it looks like they just set everything up and then just shot it all in one go. I especially like when hey are moving the piled up bread form the one to the other. I looks to me as they are improvising all the way through the video. Another element in the video is the blond girl the i somehow found it easy to identify myself with. Because i could imagin it could be me acting out the little silly role.

A little bit of egotism

2009-01-12T08:50:00.000-08:00

This woman, Brenda Dikson is a character from a soap opera from the 80´s. After stopping being a soap opera star she made videos about how to keep in shape , how to look good. she is giving away all her beauty tricks.
Somebody has made a parody of her beauty video. It makes me laugh over and over again. Why? The way the parody make fun of her self obsession and her enormous ego.
i have posted one original and one parody. see if you can guess what´s what!
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The marvelous body

2009-01-12T08:41:00.000-08:00