Performing Feces in Contemporary Video and Performance Art in Israel

In its political ideology, large sectors of Israeli society hold the belief that only people who share ethnocratic values can same hygiene identity with it, reflecting self-perception as a pure national subject. This is context in which scatological works based on radical materialism and ethical critique first appeared performance video art at turn twenty-first century. The artworks under discussion seek to consider humankind machines produce waste, an emphasis excess waste separates those are excluded from dominant Israeli-nationalist-Zionist view or discourse. Some artists employ excrement tool degrade power structures, while others see it source creativity alternative way material life. Performing feces, being shit, constitutes position creation, observation, we should pay particular attention this moment time.