Debriefing Session

Dana Yahalomi / Public Movement (IL)

On November 8, Public Movement will hold Debriefing Session, a series of private, one-on-one sessions that reveal key conflicts from the mission, “SALONS: Birthright Palestine?”. This action was commissioned as part of the New Museum Triennial "The Ungovernables". While developing the project in New York over the course of six months, Public Movement negotiated with power structures and various publics, navigating agendas, institutional alliances, backroom politics, and creating fractures across a spectrum of individual and organizational positions.

Debriefing Session foregrounds the transitional moment between research and action by turning members of the public into carriers of this information. Activated in Europe for the first time, Debriefing Session in Helsinki functions as a new method of sharing the complex relations between cultural production, public and private funding bodies, political agendas and activism.


Arkadiy Sobolev, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN and Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General. (New York, 1 October 1956)

Public Movement is a performative research body that investigates and stages political actions in public spaces. The movement explores the political and aesthetic possibilities residing in a group of people acting together. It studies and creates public choreographies, forms of social order, overt and covert rituals. Among Public Movement's actions in the past and in the future: manifestations of presence, fictional acts of hatred, new folk dances, synchronized procedures of movement, spectacles, marches, inventing and reenacting moments in the life of individuals, communities, social institutions, peoples, states, and of humanity. Public Movement was founded in November 2006 by Omer Krieger and Dana Yahalomi who led it together until August 2011. The movement is currently led by Yahalomi.


Thu 8.11. 12:00-20:00
The performance starts in every 20 min.

The action will take place in a public location to be disclosed.
Free entrance.
Access to Debriefing Session is limited.
Reservations: debriefingsessionhelsinki@gmail.com

Duration: 15 min.
Performed in English


Debriefing Session was Co-commissioned by the New Museum and Artis as part of "SALONS: Birthright Palestine?", a project for the 2012 New Museum Triennial, “The Ungovernables” curated by Eungie Joo. 


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