Alon Peretz

There is a time for everything

A sound installation for Quad audio system at the Tea House, Hansen - Jerusalem

Part of Jerusalem Design Week, curated by: Tal Erez and Anat Safran

There is a time for everything is a surround sound installation located at the Tea House that deals in the manner in which an ancient text is being interpreted repeatedly throughout history and beyond it. The famous text is taken from Ecclesiastes Chapter 3 and is being whispered by the artist and then goes on to accelerate rapidly to the point where the swirling text becomes harmony - music.

The timeless appearance of the Tea House seems as a futuristic archaeological artifact that conveys the ideas of the ancient text by abstraction from the symbolic order of meaning  to the real.   

There is a time for everything,

There is a time for everything,

and a season for every activity under the heavens:

a time to be born and a time to die,

a time to plant and a time to uproot,

a time to kill and a time to heal,

a time to tear down and a time to build,

a time to weep and a time to laugh,

a time to mourn and a time to dance,

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to search and a time to give up,

a time to keep and a time to throw away,

a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,

a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.