My Eyes / An Event Marking International Women’s Day

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Commission for Equality, Diversity, and Community at Tel Aviv University, marks International Women’s Day with a special event inspired by the exhibition Observation / The Field Observers of the Gaza Sector: A Video Installation by Talya Lavie.

Talya Lavie’s video installation (by the director of the film Zero Motivation) is composed of ten testimonies by female military lookouts who served along the Gaza border between 2016 and 2024. Lavie’s work is not an investigation into the chain of events that led to the October 7 attack; rather, it weaves a network of stories that engage with fate and coincidence, responsibility and guilt, empathy and solidarity on the edge of the abyss.

The event will open with a special single-channel screening of Lavie’s film. Following the screening, a discussion titled Women, War, and Peace will take place, featuring scholars, activists, artists, journalists, and others. The conversation will address women in the Israel Defense Forces—past, present, and future—while examining the tension between increasing equality and persistent disregard and the current risk of exclusion; women creators and their perspectives on the military and war; and feminist activism in Israel, its achievements, and its challenges.

Participants include: Mira Lapidot, Talya Lavie, Prof. Yofi Tirosh, Dr. Roni Halpern, Carmela Menashe, and Ghadir Hani.

Before or after the event, audiences are invited to visit the two-channel video installation: on the main screen, the speakers appear one after another in chronological order according to their period of military service; the second channel is projected at the rear of the gallery space and is edited to evoke a changing of the guard or a relay of testimony across time and space.

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Note: This event is in Hebrew only.
The event will take place from 5:00–9:00 PM
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the encounter includes entrance ticket to the Museum.