Everything you have is yours? investigates the construction of Israeli identity through gestures appropriated from Palestinian and Yemeni culture. Hadar Ahuvia and Mor Mendel imitate and translate instructional videos of Israeli folk dances by Israelis and American Christian Zionist, embodying distance and proximity to Israel, Israeliness, and enacting the feedback loop through which national ideology is disseminated and sustained. In their performative mirroring of these videos, they reveal the subtext of dances, making explicit the Otherness at the kernel of Israeli identity.

My work investigates history and memory through embodied, vocal, and textual practices. I rehash codified forms to contend with gender, class, and national identities. I’ve contrived techniques to challenge the neutral body and the virtuosity of classical technique. I’ve performed cleaning to expose the isolation and exploitation of domestic workers. Through the re-figuring of Israeli folk songs and dances I encounter a Zionist legacy. I work through the body and its inseparable social, political, and emotional dimensions to rewrite personal and collective mythologies.