Amit Palgi

Who are you as a performer/artist? What are your ambitions?
Where do you find inspiration?  

Open-mindedness, Curiosity, and Reflectiveness.

I am interested in doing new things. I experiment and challenge myself to do things I haven’t done or seen before. Something that I’m not sure I can do.
I believe art is a tool for communication. I always wish to share something with my art, to communicate with my audience. To offer them a gentle and different way to look at the world. As a human, in my art I'm busy with humans. As a human, I'm constantly busy in trying to understand myself better. Understanding what I feel, and what I think I am supposed to feel. Why do I feel things, and the complexity of my feelings. In my art I try to dare to share part of it in an authentic and vulnerable way, using images, thoughts, and sensations. In my art, I am often busy with inner dialogs                                                                                                               -Communicating with the different selves and sides I'm made out of. I look for the personal things that are global, and that everyone can relate to.

I believe that sharing vulnerability can help people connect to their own emotions. I wish to make people think about how they are doing. In the capitalist profit-based society we live in, I wish to open space for people to wander and feel. A space where they can feel ok with not feeling ok.

What did you do at your internship & what did you learn?

During this year I was working as a freelance – and discovered how many things I can do as an Artist. I was assisting production as a producer, offered outside eye as a dramaturg, performed as a dancer, performed as a maker, created for festivals, orchestras, VR and theaters, established and curated interdisciplinary artistic night adventures.

Doing so many things helped me to see how many possibilities there are – and forced me to question – what do I want to do? What can give me a sense of meaning? Why do I do things?

Favourite quotes 

“You turn yourself around; that's what it's all about!" - Hokey Pokey

“one must imagine Sisyphus happy” - Albert Camus

This page was last updated on April 21, 2023