Liquid Social Choreography

Abstract

For a few months, in 2020, the constant flow of people around the world stopped almost entirely because of the pandemic. Borders were closed, cities placed under blockade and various states of exception restricted or completely abrogated the right to move. The restrictions on movement created a new social choreography of daily movement in the urban public space that became a vast laboratory for political gestures based on movement. A new choreography that obeys social distancing guidelines started to be seen in the Israeli public space. But there were also other movement-based reactions to the new situation, ones that subversively disrupted the rules of exception and ones that resisted them out loud.