![]() I think that after accepting this new situation and adjusting to my new environment I began adapting to a creative routine. At first, I was very distracted and found it hard to focus on creating new work. Virtual city dweller crossw full#On a personal level I found it as a very confusing time full of uncertainty. ![]() They have to fight for their lives by killing their kind, to get whatever food is available. Rats who used to have an abundance of food from restaurants and bars are now starving. Monkeys in India that their main source of food came from tourism have hungered. This time has also revealed how much some species’ lives are intertwined with ours. I would like to emphasize that I do not think this is how life should be from now on, enclosed in our homes, but it gives hope that it is not too late for us to change behavior towards the environment and we have the power to rehabilitate our planet. Animals who were pushed from their habitats by urbanization are entering our cities, wandering around looking for food and shelter. We got a remarkable pick on the drastic effect our human behavior has on other species, our non-human companions. The most exciting and fascinating phenomenon that occurred in the last couple of months for me is nature reclaiming. I see art as a great channel to promote these ideas and challenge conceptions that have been long embedded in our societies. Prejudice and misconceptions should be fought through education and discussions to make the world a better place to live in. I strongly support the demonstrations and the ideas they promote. Gal Nissim: The current events reveal the unjust reality we all live in - our society is infected by racism and prejudice. How are you coping these days and what are your thoughts about the road Interview was conducted a while before the Corona pandemic. Our interview process had been taking place before the pandemic and the artist was given an opportunity to bring her responses fairly up to date. ![]() ![]() Nissim shares with Art Spiel her fascination with the link between science and art, some insight into her elaborate collaborative process, and on her projects. Gal Nissim creates collaborative experiential multi media installations which stimulate the visitor to track and decode the behaviors of animals through audio-visual patterns, ranging from a colony of living ants in a gallery space to wild life in Central Park. Gal Nissim & Leslie Ruckman, SurveillAnts at Science Gallery Detroit, 2018, live ants, acrylic, sand, wood, electronics. ![]()
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