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Mir Zaynen Do! We Are Here! : September 10-14

Bartana, Yael LU (2025)
Abstract
Berlin Art Week – Capitain Petzel

Film Screening (on loop)

Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a screening of Yael Bartana’s latest video work Mir Zaynen Do!, on view from 10 to 14 September, coinciding with Berlin Art Week.

In communities of the diaspora, music can be a powerful tool for collectively preserving memories. Along with storytelling, traditional languages, and dancing, songs can represent a living home for stateless nations.

Commissioned by the Jewish Brazilian art space Casa do Povo, Yael Bartana’s video Mir Zaynen Do! (2024) brings together two groups from two different diasporas: Coral Tradição, a Jewish Brazilian choir born from the now-destroyed Yiddishland (a nation whose borders... (More)
Berlin Art Week – Capitain Petzel

Film Screening (on loop)

Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a screening of Yael Bartana’s latest video work Mir Zaynen Do!, on view from 10 to 14 September, coinciding with Berlin Art Week.

In communities of the diaspora, music can be a powerful tool for collectively preserving memories. Along with storytelling, traditional languages, and dancing, songs can represent a living home for stateless nations.

Commissioned by the Jewish Brazilian art space Casa do Povo, Yael Bartana’s video Mir Zaynen Do! (2024) brings together two groups from two different diasporas: Coral Tradição, a Jewish Brazilian choir born from the now-destroyed Yiddishland (a nation whose borders were defined by the reach of the Yiddish language itself), and Ilú Obá De Min, an Afro-Brazilian street music ensemble that stems from Candomblé culture. In an exercise of weaving new possible alliances, Bartana’s video is an invitation to imagine the emergence of collective bodies beyond fixed identity labels.

The work was shot in the Teatro de Arte lsraelita Brasileiro (TAIB), which was built in the basement of the Casa do Povo in 1960. The TAIB was created for a future that never fully happened: the return of the Yiddish language.

Nevertheless, it became the dream theater of the experimental performing arts scene in São Paulo in the 1960s and ’70s. It is in the ruins of this legendary theater that Bartana imagines a time to come – between past and present, memory and pre-enactment, the sung word and collective choreographies.

Coral Tradição - Conductor
Hugueta Sendacz

Ilú Obá de Min - Conductor
Beth Beli

Director
Yael Bartana

Music and Sound Design
Daniel Meir

Director of Photography and Color Grading
Simon Veroneg

Editors
Yael Bartana
Daphna Keenan

Producers
Benjamin Seroussi
Francesca Tedeschi
Adi Nachman

Production manager
Georgia Kirilov

Assistant Director
Luana Eseorel

Graphic Design
Avi Bohbot (Less)
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Yiddishland, Candomble, Coral Tradicao, Casa do Povo, Capitain Petzel
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Capitain Petzel
language
English
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yes
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2d876a37-3fd6-435a-8c53-0456496d1535
date added to LUP
2025-10-01 17:33:02
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2025-10-02 07:02:56
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  abstract     = {{Berlin Art Week – Capitain Petzel<br/><br/>Film Screening (on loop)<br/><br/>Capitain Petzel is pleased to announce a screening of Yael Bartana’s latest video work Mir Zaynen Do!, on view from 10 to 14 September, coinciding with Berlin Art Week.<br/><br/>In communities of the diaspora, music can be a powerful tool for collectively preserving memories. Along with storytelling, traditional languages, and dancing, songs can represent a living home for stateless nations.<br/><br/>Commissioned by the Jewish Brazilian art space Casa do Povo, Yael Bartana’s video Mir Zaynen Do! (2024) brings together two groups from two different diasporas: Coral Tradição, a Jewish Brazilian choir born from the now-destroyed Yiddishland (a nation whose borders were defined by the reach of the Yiddish language itself), and Ilú Obá De Min, an Afro-Brazilian street music ensemble that stems from Candomblé culture. In an exercise of weaving new possible alliances, Bartana’s video is an invitation to imagine the emergence of collective bodies beyond fixed identity labels.<br/><br/>The work was shot in the Teatro de Arte lsraelita Brasileiro (TAIB), which was built in the basement of the Casa do Povo in 1960. The TAIB was created for a future that never fully happened: the return of the Yiddish language.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, it became the dream theater of the experimental performing arts scene in São Paulo in the 1960s and ’70s. It is in the ruins of this legendary theater that Bartana imagines a time to come – between past and present, memory and pre-enactment, the sung word and collective choreographies.<br/><br/>Coral Tradição - Conductor<br/>Hugueta Sendacz<br/><br/>Ilú Obá de Min - Conductor<br/>Beth Beli<br/><br/>Director<br/>Yael Bartana<br/><br/>Music and Sound Design<br/>Daniel Meir<br/><br/>Director of Photography and Color Grading<br/>Simon Veroneg<br/><br/>Editors<br/>Yael Bartana<br/>Daphna Keenan<br/><br/>Producers<br/>Benjamin Seroussi<br/>Francesca Tedeschi<br/>Adi Nachman<br/><br/>Production manager<br/>Georgia Kirilov<br/><br/>Assistant Director<br/>Luana Eseorel<br/><br/>Graphic Design<br/>Avi Bohbot}},
  author       = {{Bartana, Yael}},
  keywords     = {{Yiddishland; Candomble; Coral Tradicao; Casa do Povo; Capitain Petzel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{Capitain Petzel}},
  title        = {{Mir Zaynen Do! We Are Here! : September 10-14}},
  year         = {{2025}},
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