Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

Black Milk | OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

30.09.2023

[Translate to English:] Schwarze Milch / Foto: Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

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Date

30.09.2023

Time

3pm - 7pm

Location

Art in Public Space

Meeting point

Burg Rothenfels, Bromach 1, 8832 Oberwölz

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Event

Opening of the project "Black Milk" by Jonathan Omer Mizrahi " in Oberwölz, in the context of OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture".

OPEN FIELDS - Art and Agriculture

Reflections on the sensitive and diverse interaction between humans and nature have existed since prehistory in the form of art. The OPEN FIELDS project focuses on essential aspects at the local level, namely those of agriculture in direct contact with art. This meeting of two apparent opposites is to be given space and time in a respectful setting on equal terms and in critical examination.

Jonathan Omer Mizrahi

Black Milk

For his project Schwarze Milch (Black Milk), the Israeli filmmaker and artist Jonathan Omer Mizrahi takes the perspective of a stranger in the rural region around Christine Kobald’s farm in St. Peter am Kammersberg, about the changes in rural life gleaned from assertions by the Styrian writer Peter Rosegger (1843–1918). Based on Rosegger’s descriptions of the disappearance of land (culture) and tradition, Mizrahi goes “into the field” and talks to residents about the themes of disappearance, tradition and loss. From these conversations, in close cooperation with the herbal teacher and farmer Kobald and the local population, he developed a docu-fictional, multi-channel video on the topics of dairy farming and witches, which combines contemporary personal experiences with folkloric, anti-patriarchal images into a non-linear, deliberately flawed and lively history.