Lital Dotan Performance Art

Lital Dotan is a performance artist working with durational, participatory, and time-based practices that explore intimacy, the body, endurance, and social structures through live actions, video, installation, and interdisciplinary work.

**Lital Dotan is a visual artist rooted in performance art**

SELECTED WORKS

For over two decades, Lital Dotan has worked within the expanded field of performance, drawing from photography, theatre, and sculpture. Her practice often begins in the public sphere—interventions in protests, gestures within landscapes of turbulence—before distilling into video installations and sculptural environments for performance. Threads of power, migration, memory, and the shifting roles of audience and archive run through her work, resurfacing in a material vocabulary of bones, challah bread, thorns, hairbrushes, and fabric. Cast in ice, these objects appear as temporary relics, vulnerable and human in their impermanence. Read more about Dotan’s work with ice

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FEATURED PROJECT

Comb My Hair (performance sculpture, 2022)
ice, hair

“For thousands of years ice was used to preserve humanity, I use ice to preserve humanness, leaving traces that could teach future generations what it felt like to be human- what intimacy looks like, how fear or pain or loss feel like. ”

— Lital Dotan

On ice

The Sound of Not Moving (video performance 2021)

Books & Publications