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All My Sons (Kulam Hayu Banay) is a project which involves a web-piece, a video, and an exhibition. It was commissioned by The DigitalArtLab in Holon , Israel , in 2001. The exhibition, in its character is flexible and modular and it can and should be adjusted or reconstructed according to a given space. The description below is of the original presentation:

The video (see synopsis below) is a reconstruction of the future history of our eight, out of dozens of, possible children. The kids, animated characters, whose faces composed from our facial features in the same way police identikits are made, are planted in our (their parents) real world. Through the different episodes, we deal with our existence and identity as a couple and artists and with moral conventions, common beliefs and behaviors of the Israeli society in which we live.

In the web site , www.identikids.org.il, the visitor can find portraits of the 8 children, with our request for help in constructing the kids' personalities and biographies, through a questionnaire, which enables the visitor to choose the kid's age, name, nationality, prominent traits etc. Based on the filled up forms, we intend to trace stereotypes represented and their relation to the kid's appearance.

The Installation was spread over 4 different spaces; the screening room, the computer room, the workshop and the entrance hall:

in the Entrance hall, the eight black and white portraits of the movie-starts are hung.

A computer space (2-3 computers) where the visitor can access the above mentioned website, and also to create new kids from our facial features by using a very simple compute program. The new portraits are printed and they can be either taken home as souvenirs or hung as a contribution to the exhibition.

The Kwa Kwa workshop is a symetrical space, where the visitor can learn how to create, following instructions shown in a short video, an origami game that also plays with the idea of possible identities.

in the screening space, next to the entrance, 2 bigger-than-life prints of us, knitting.