In 2003 Ashery, dressed as a religious Jewish man, went to join the yearly dance celebration Lag Ba’Omer at Meron Mountain in the north of Israel. The celebration commemorates the death of the famous second-century Kabbalist scholar Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who ordered his followers to dance, laugh and be happy as a way to mourn his death. However, only men are allowed to dance. Supported by the Live Art Development Agency One To One bursary.
Links/Downloads:
Essay: Matt Wolf, ‘Passing as Marcus Fisher’, Heeb Magazine (November 2004)
Review: Christopher K. Ho, ‘Oreet Ashery – Foxy Productions’, Flash Art, February 2004
Review: Barry Schwabsky, ‘Oreet Ashery DVD’, MAP, Spring 2008