I Wandered Relentlessly
Video Installation, 11:00 min, 3 channel video loop,
Hilchot Shchenim Part B, 2004

1 Snow Way, 3:50 min.
Photography: Dana Levi
Music: Nagua Fouad
2 Triumvirate, 1:43 min.
Photography: Elyasaf Kowner
3 Haim (a.k.a. Life), 2:45
Particiapating: Haim Ben-Shitrit
Photography: Elyasaf Kowner

For the last two years, the artist Elyasaf Kowner has been wandering in an attempt to create a new type of video art. This is the continuation of previous video art works dealing with the act of relentless wandering, and linking the sublime with the material in daily life.
Nowadays he uses a fictive identity, which he himself impersonates. Through this image, he seeks to extend the capacity of capturing people encountered while wandering through the local Israeli environment, and also of capturing himself, as part of this environment.
The very act of wandering is a reaction to an unbearable political situation. It embodies a daily routine in a normal, sane place, such as places to which "movies" take us. Instead of being lost in the insane televised reality, Kowner proposes a new kind of encounter with the environment, through the image of a man wearing a hat and striped shirt - an image which is subversive in that it is "unconnected", and which strives to embrace all and restore harmony, from here of all places.