Ayelet Berman-Cohen

Ayelet Berman-Cohen was born and grew up in Israel, where she studied art and photography and worked as a staff photographer for a leading Israeli magazine.

After coming to the States, she received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

Ayelet is the mother of seven children and has raised many more in the healing home she created in Los Angeles. She has been dreaming in indigenous ways for many years, which means simply that the dreams serve as guides.

Currently she is the founder and CEO of the ADAMÂ Foundation, dedicated to building bakeries in refugee camps and other places of need around the world. The work carried out by Adama was inspired by her dreams.

“In my dreams I would awaken in the shoes of people touched by war. Soldiers, mothers who lost their sons, women and children from both sides of an ancient conflict. And then, another kind of dream arrived, offering the possibility of an end to war. In these dreams, women – who I had learned to call my “enemy” – came to me again and again and fed me the most delicious bread. This was a surprise, being fed by my foes. I knew that one day I would make them an offering in return.”

The ADAMÂ Foundation, founded in 2020, with the intention of helping refugees who have lost their homes, their land and their traditions to violence and war.

Ayelet built her first bakery in the Oruchinga Settlement Camp in 2021. In her words “the act of breaking bread together creates a new narrative of community, healing, and an end to war.”

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PERFORMANCE
12 04 2024 20H

Eugénie Kuffler
Born in 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland, emigrated to Paris in 1967 where she studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Max Deutsch and Henri Dutilleux, flûte with Alain Marion and electro-acoustical music at the GRM. In 1970 she joined the GERM, a composer-performer collective; in 1973 Philippe Drogoz and she founded 010 an avant-garde cabaret ensemble. In 1980 she created the solo tryptic icara night: icara or the flight inward, iris, from moon to water, a piece which continues to orient her work. She creates radio works for France Culture – J/E, adapted from The Lesbian Body by Monique Wittig, codirected with Syn Guérin ; the ecstatic spiral notebooks. In 1995 Nathalie Braux, Aldridge Hansberry, Hélène Bass, Francine Mercier and she founded the composer-performer collective Hot Chills and played together until 2012. In 2000 she founded Conexión Habana, a troop of 8 Cubain dancers, musicians and comedians plus herself and through 2007, premiered 6 chapters of Etno Poesía Cuba in Havana. Currently she improvises with whoever’s out there and is preparing a music-theater solo – Survival Technics.

Hélène Bass

A lifelong pianist (with a passion for 4-handed playing and accompaniment), and a cellist just a little less so (with the Loewenguth orchestra since ’66), Hélène has been able to build bridges with all forms of artistic expression, to the point where her music is immersed in conversations, carried by spaces of sound, gesture, color and sculpture.
Working simultaneously or intermittently as a schoolteacher for 28 years and as a musician, in 1974 she began performing with the experimental theater group Les Matinaux, and recording with composer P. Alrand for Théâtre Éclaté. She has worked with D.Montain, l’Arfi, l’Ariam; S. Mowlik,T. Nawrot,V.Lehuche, and choreographers K. Saporta and O. Duboc, for whom she composes and improvises.

Text-compositions is a musical form of conceptual art that immerged in the 70s in parallel to graphic scores. It often consists of a series of directives for the realization of a sonorous idea. I began using this form when I was a member of the collective the GERM (Groupe d’études et de réalisations musicales) from 1970 to 1973. It’s a form that works best when the musicians have reservoir of sounds at their disposition and have played together sufficiently to be familiar with each other’s style. That is certainly the case with the cellist Hélène Bass with whom I have performed since 1995. The composition-texts in Another River were inspired by excerpts of Margalit Berriet’s texts related to Ayelet Berman-Cohen’s exhibition, Another River.

Eugénie Kuffler, Paris March 18 2024