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20 November 05

» Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts-- October 21--November 20, 2005

The curator Louis Kaplan

Standing outside Gender Cuts/The Jew Under the Knife

Standing outside Melissa Shiff’s Gender Cuts/The Jew Under the Knife

Inside the Abrahamic Tent

The Ten Commandments/Prohibited Weapons by Simon Glass

Louis Kaplan idolizing Jeffrey Shaw’s “The Golden Calf”

Helene Aylon’s “The Digital Liberation of God”

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21 May 05

» Melissa proudly displays her Jewish Andy Warhol Wall

These photos were taken by acclaimed photo journalist and activist Donna Ferrato who in the early 90’s broke open the nasty nasty phenomenan of domestic violence—or as I prefer to call it, just plain old violence against women.
Performance artist Missy Galore, kindly invited Donna to my art activist Passover installation on the eve of the artist Seder where 60 people activated the installation that you see below. Enjoy these images from “The Medium is the Matzo”

On May 2nd, 2005 the last day of the show all 120 jars of Matzo Ball Soup some of which you see here were transported to the Hebrew Union College soup kitchen. This is what I call Matzo Ball activism, in other words, I am using the line in the Haggadah that says “let all who are hungry come in and eat” and transforming this into a mandate to take the seder to the public arena— and go out and actively feed people.

crushing oppression

The whole wheat Matzo Mitzrayim Tunnel
(for the uninitiated Mitzrayim translates as the narrow places and Egypt, think Egypt in the time of slavery not the Egypt of today).

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18 May 05

» First time fishin--sort of

So I’ve finally taken the plunge. I’ve been rather reluctant to post anything here so what am i worried about? A. it’ll be just a bunch of hot air B. virtual therapy instead of the real thing C. It’ll just be a Confessional forum D. Pure Rant E. Vanity all about me F. a site that exposes too much. G. that no one will read H. a waste of energy that could otherwise be devoted to crushing oppression. Hmmm have I exhausted the negative never. Ok to look on the positive side it could be a place to thank those I love including Louis who deserves so so so much thanks for putting up with the matzo woman when she was consumed with that bread of oppression for weeks, months. Ok I’ll give it a try, why not who knows what’s going to happen!
Blog Fish sighing off,

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27 March 05

» The Medium is the Matzo press release

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The Medium is the Matzo press release, low res image

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27 March 05

» the four instructions

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the four instructions, low res version

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