New Cycle
Adaya Godlevsky
A musical performance based on a series of menstrual blood drawings created over the past four years, as part of an inquiry into the maturing female body and fertility. Each month, drawings were made with menstrual stains and pencils, functioning as graphic scores and sources of inspiration. These visual works shape the contours of a musical composition for harp, voice, and electronics.
“New Cycle” accompanies the artist’s journey into womanhood at fifty, raising questions of female embodiment, creativity, and cultural perceptions.
The process was accompanied by a scientific dialogue with Prof Li Koren
The collaboration was initiated by and developed in dialogue with The Fetter Museum of Nanoscience & Art at Bar-Ilan University.
FRIDAY | NOV 14 | 10:00 & 12:00
Duration: 50 minutes
At the end of the second show there will be a guided discussion with the artist and the scientist.
Location: Erdi Hall, Museum of Natural History
Adaya Godlevsky: drawings, compositions, harp, voice, electronics.
Special thanks: Hila Lulu Lin Perach Kfar Bir’im, Hila Ben Ari, Nana Ariel & Uri Yoeli, Efrat Rubin, Sharon Kantor, Assaf Rahat, Anat Levin, and Ilana Weisberg Doron.
About the Creators
Adaya Godlevsky is a multidisciplinary musician and artist whose artistic practice centers on the harp. Her work spans classical performance, experimental music, improvisation, song, and original compositions for harp and other instruments. Since 2002, she has performed internationally as a soloist and in collaborations across disciplines. She studied harp from an early age, theatre at “Nissan Nativ” studio, and music at “Rimon” School. Her composition teachers include Oded Zehavi, Arik Shapira, and Amnon Wolman. Godlevsky has received grants and fellowships from local and international funds.
Prof. Lee Koren is a researcher at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University. She studies the interaction between hormones and wildlife behavioral ecology, and is interested in sex differences in the role of testosterone in social behavior, maternal behavior, mate choice, risk-taking, vocal communication, reproduction and sexuality during different life stages, from fetal development along the life history of individuals.
