“Behold How Good”
(15 minutes)

 

Directed by Maiada Aboud

Performed by Ben Spatz

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“Behold How Good” is a performance-based project relating to the artists’ political and cultural backgrounds and to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A siren is played in Israel on Holocaust Memorial Day. The words are from Psalm 133 and can be translated as: Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

 

Maiada Aboud’s work deals with ways that political and religious structures interconnect and influence the individual. Using endurance art, Maiada's interest in political and religious issues draws on a unique and personal perspective. Born in Palestine (Christian Arab Israeli), graduated from Haifa University, and received her education in the UK: where she completed her Masters at Coventry University and her PhD at Sheffield Hallam University. [www.maiadaaboud.com]

 

Ben Spatz is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield and editor of the Journal of Embodied Research. Ben’s current research extends an interdisciplinary methodology for embodied research into postcolonial jewish studies. This project is supported by the AHRC Leadership Fellowship award ‘Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Song-Action’ (2016-2018). [urbanresearchtheater.com]