Ashery had conducted a number of public interventions as her alter ego, the religious Jewish man named Marcus Fisher, inspired by her  Jewish religious extended maternal family and her upbringing in Jerusalem. Video footage from interventions in Berlin, Tel Aviv and London as Marcus Fisher, together with home videos and anonymous photographic stills, make up the sixteen-minute mockumentary Marcus Fisher’s Wake, charting the fictional life of the character from childhood to his early death.

Links/Downloads:

What it is like for you? Rethinking Voice Appropriation in Parafictional Identities in Israeli Art, 2023, Keren Goldberg

Essay: Oreet Ashery, ‘In and Out of Love with Marcus Fisher – an alter ego and an art project’, Jewish Masculinities

Essay: Oreet Ashery, ‘De/Territorialized Practices’, Living in a Material World, Coventry University, 1999

Essay: Rohini Malik Okon, ‘Oreet Ashery/Marcus Fisher’, The Promise, The Land Catalogue, OK Centre for Contemporary Art, Linz, also published in Performing Difference, Artsadmin, 2003

Essay: Matt Wolf, ‘Passing as Marcus Fisher’, Heeb Magazine (November 2004)

Essay: Dorothy Rowe, ‘Biography and spatial experience in contemporary diasporic art in Britain’ in Arnold, D and Sofaer, J (eds.), Biographies and Space (London and New York, Routledge, 2007)

Essay: Rachel Paige Katz, ‘Marcus and Rrose: Cross-Dressing, Alter-Egos, and the Artist’ (2008)

Essay: Artur Kamczycki, ‘Marcus Fisher and the Jewish Third Gender’, Artluk (March 2008) (Text in Polish)

Review: Cherry Smyth, ‘Say Cheese, Home – Salon 17’, Circa (Spring 2002)

Review: Barry Schwabsky, ‘Oreet Ashery DVD’, MAP, Spring 2008