Visual communication
Sala-manca (Lea Mauas, Diego Rotman)
The Sala-Manca Group is a group of independent Jerusalem-based artists that creates in different fields: performance, video, installation & new media since 2000. Sala-manca’s works deal with poetics of translation (cultural, mediatic and social), with textual, urban and net contexts, and with the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues.
Sala-manca works are in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Art Museum. Sala-manca was the recipient of the 2017 Ministry of Culture Prize for Visual Artists. Sala-manca's works were shown extensively in Israel and abroad in different venues such as: the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum; Tate Modern – London; Eyebeam New York; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley; Ujazdowski Palace, Warsaw; Box, Belfast; Forum Stadtplatz, Graz; Israel Festival; Jerusalem Film Festival; Blurr Performance Festival - Tel Aviv; Digital Art Center Holon; Impa- La Fabrica, Buenos Aires. Sal-Manca published the books Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusael (Mauas, Rotman, MacQueen eds., De Gruyter, 2022), Heara - Contempoary Art in Jerusalem (Mauas, Rotman, Eidelman eds., Hearat Shualy, 2012); the Hearat Shulaym – (Note in the Margin): Independent Quarterly for Contemporary Art and Literature (2001-2007), curated and produced Heara events – multidisciplinary events organized in an independent way with no commercial or official sponsors, between other projects. In 2009 they founded the Mamuta Art and Media Center which was located at Daniela Passal’s house between 2009-2012 and has been operating in Hansen House since November 2013.
Lea Mauas holds a M.A. on Cultural Studies from Queen's University Ontario. She is a lecturer at The Visual Theatre School and Bezalel Art Academy.
Diego Rotman holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University. Hee is also a Senior Lecturer and since July 2019 he is the Head of the Department of Theater Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research focuses on performative practices as related to local historiography, Yiddish theater, contemporary art and folklore, and research-creation projects. His book “The Stage as a Temporary Home – On Dzigan and Shumacher's Theater” was the winner of the Shapiro Prize for the Best Book on Israel Studies (2019).
Sala-manca works are in the collections of the Israel Museum, Tel Aviv Art Museum. Sala-manca was the recipient of the 2017 Ministry of Culture Prize for Visual Artists. Sala-manca's works were shown extensively in Israel and abroad in different venues such as: the Israel Museum; Tel Aviv Museum; Tate Modern – London; Eyebeam New York; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley; Ujazdowski Palace, Warsaw; Box, Belfast; Forum Stadtplatz, Graz; Israel Festival; Jerusalem Film Festival; Blurr Performance Festival - Tel Aviv; Digital Art Center Holon; Impa- La Fabrica, Buenos Aires. Sal-Manca published the books Possession and Dispossession: Performing Jewish Ethnography in Jerusael (Mauas, Rotman, MacQueen eds., De Gruyter, 2022), Heara - Contempoary Art in Jerusalem (Mauas, Rotman, Eidelman eds., Hearat Shualy, 2012); the Hearat Shulaym – (Note in the Margin): Independent Quarterly for Contemporary Art and Literature (2001-2007), curated and produced Heara events – multidisciplinary events organized in an independent way with no commercial or official sponsors, between other projects. In 2009 they founded the Mamuta Art and Media Center which was located at Daniela Passal’s house between 2009-2012 and has been operating in Hansen House since November 2013.
Lea Mauas holds a M.A. on Cultural Studies from Queen's University Ontario. She is a lecturer at The Visual Theatre School and Bezalel Art Academy.
Diego Rotman holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University. Hee is also a Senior Lecturer and since July 2019 he is the Head of the Department of Theater Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His research focuses on performative practices as related to local historiography, Yiddish theater, contemporary art and folklore, and research-creation projects. His book “The Stage as a Temporary Home – On Dzigan and Shumacher's Theater” was the winner of the Shapiro Prize for the Best Book on Israel Studies (2019).