Desperate friends send an email asking for urgent financial help after falling victim to a terrible attack while on holiday in Spain or Greece!
In the video installation “Terrible Vacation”, Israeli artist Roy Menachem Markovich takes on the criminal internet phenomenon known as ‘Nigerian Sting’ – the fake messages that land in our inboxes from known but hacked addresses. In the “Terrible Vacation” Internet café in the message salon, dramatised cries for help from an unknown source flicker across the flat screens with the intention of stealing our money!
The events described in the fake emails become the template for the film stories. Some of the protagonists appearing in the video were actually victims whose email addresses were hacked. In “Terrible Vacation” they act out their “own” story, just as the script of the fake news demands.
In a special screening in the Perla-Mode foyer, Roy Menachem Markovich shows a series of videos by artist friends from Tel Aviv. “We Hate Our Village” promises an intense, critical and unusual look by Israeli artists at their city and homeland in an explosive permanent state and field of tension between history and the future, normality and crisis, war and peace.
“We Hate Our Village” is a compilation with videos by Yaron Attar, Hadas Kedar, Daniel Kiczales, Roy Menachem Markovich, Eran Nave, Chaya Ruckin, Tamir Zadok.
The exhibition is supported by videocompany.ch, Zofingen