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Maya Escobar

Conceptual Identity Artist

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yer boy matis is back, and this time he's wearing a santa suit

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv-7WdpB72o]Matisyahu also ice skates and dances in a Shakira Loba cage.Happy Hanukkah, Channukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Feliz Janukah...(or all of the above)

tags: hanukkah, janukah, Matisyahu, Miracle, Shakira
categories: humor, Jewish Life in America, Judaism, music, Pop Culture, YouTube
Wednesday 12.01.10
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Berlin's Eruv at the 2009 Conney Conference on Jewish Art

I will be presenting Berlin's Eruv at the 2009 Conney Conference: Performing Histories, Inscribing Jewishness at University of Wisconsin Madison.Berlin’s Eruv is a conceptual project that addresses the assumed non-presence of Jews in Germany. Berlin does not actually have an eruv. There is however, an active Jewish community, one that is frequently overshadowed by the city's prominent monuments and memorials commemorating Jewish life (death). Berlin's Eruv weaves together voices from Berlin's Jewish community in an attempt to construct a metaphorical eruv representative of a living Jewish Community. Just as the eruv exists in the minds of the people who abide by it, Berlin’s Eruv manifests itself through the conversations surrounding the idea of the piece.*****I will be showing Berlin's Eruv at 2009 MFA Thesis Exhibition, opening May 8th at the Kemper Art Museum.

tags: berlin, birthright, conceptual art, conney conference, contemporary art, diaspora, erubin, eruv, eruvin, frum, germany, halacha, hyperlinks, installation, intertextual, ipod, jewish artist, jewish berlin, Jewish Life in America, judasim, kemper art museum, Matisyahu, moshe or, postcard, space, st- louis, the st lou jew, Thesis Exhibition, university of wisconsin madison, video projection, Washington University in St- Louis, wustl, yeshivish, YouTube
categories: Art, berlin's eruv, contmporary art, exhibition, identity, Judaism, Maya Escobar, MFA, new media art, psychogeography
Wednesday 04.15.09
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Dancing with Matisyahu

a little comedic relief in the middle of thesis writing.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKMJ4uRYXPE]you too can dance with matis, other choices involve:jumping out of a plane, becoming a super hero, staring in a fairy tale, or being the hottest toy.I give him mad props for being such a skilled promoter[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATdmGgPbuvU&feature=channel_page]check him out on twitter @matisyahu

tags: comedy, dancewithmatis, dancing, humor, Jewish Life in America, Matisyahu, Maya Escobar, self-promotion, twitter, tznius
categories: hip hop, identity, Pop Culture, YouTube
Tuesday 03.24.09
Posted by maya escobar