Gil & Moti: Laylah, The Creature Beyond Dreams

Gil and Moti are Israeli artists who live and work as a duo in Rotterdam. They consider themselves “pan-media” artists, their media include installation,video, painting, writing and performance. As gay artists and Israeli immigrants to Europe, they gravitate towards creating art that concentrates on issues of difference and social coexistence. Several of Gil and Moti’s recent projects attempt to bridge the divide between Jewish Israelis and Arabs. This past April and May, The Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center sponsored “Available for You,” a two-month-long project through which Gil and Moti offered free and helpful services to anyone in the Arab community who might need them to cook, clean, build, run errands, etc. Williams College will be the first American site where they will show a selection of video and stills of “Available for You.” In addition, at various public sites on campus Gil and Moti will project videos of their “Gay Wedding Project,” broadcast many times on Dutch television. Another major undertaking by these two artists, “Sleeping with the Enemy,” centers on their public and on-going search for an Arab lover with whom they could fall in love and who would move in with them. The quest and the lover will be the subject of Gil and Moti’s performance, “Laylah, the Creature of our Dreams,”

Sponsored by: ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Art Department, Chaplain’s Office, Dively Committee, English Department, Gaudino Fund, History Department,Lecture Committee,Multicultural Center, W. Ford Schumann ’50 Endowment for the Arts, Williams College Jewish Association, Women’s and Gender Studies