Or Zubalsky

When a Reference to a Name is Lost

Performance and Video, 2023.

Personal history, national narratives, code, and sound facilitate a debugging session of a memory leak: a type of software bug that gradually makes memory unavailable and depletes the system of resources.

Video Poster Image Description

Still from a performance. Zoomed in crops arranged in a grid of a Hebrew textbook with rectangular holes cut into it reveal and obfuscate a moment from a video: light skinned person in their thirties wearing glasses and a dark blue buttoned down shirt is standing next to a microphone. Behind them is a projection of the same grid of holes at an angle.

Bio

Or Zubalsky makes paintings, drawings, scores for viewing, and systems: encounters with silence and hope. They are a 2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and were previously a resident at Pioneer Works (2023), NEW INC incubator member (2023), and C/Change R&D Lab fellow (2023).

Contact

I like getting messages at or@myawesomestudio.com.

Index (incomplete)

Title
* Recent Paintings
Select Works on Paper
Select Works on Panel
* Unseen
Decentered
* When a Reference to a Name is Lost
* Merge Conflicts
Request Deferred
* Time Travels: Building a State in the Middle East
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