Brute Force

Thursday | 10.07.25 | 19:00, 20:00 | Performance duration: approximately 20 minutes | Hansen House attic, Gdalyahu Alon st. 14, Jerusalem

In the new work by Lior Zalmanson and Gal Gorfung, artificial intelligence is asked to generate images of male dancers — strong, precise, growing and intensifying. In front of the screen, a live dancer strives to match the pace of requests, to remain in the picture and to examine the limits of his body. In the pursuit of ideals that are a product of the machine’s creation, imitation, collision, and open questions appear: what do strength, control, and presence look like in the eyes of the algorithm — and how does the answer appear in the living body?

Lior Zalmanson is an artist, playwright, and researcher, engaged in the relationship between technology, body, and society. His works combine digital media with live performance and explore themes such as control, autonomy, gaze, and interface in the age of artificial intelligence. Gal Gorfung is a dancer and is involved in computer science and psychology, focusing on brain sciences. Alongside his movement work, he has developed algorithms for dynamic maps and autonomous sensory experimental environments.

The meeting between them gave birth to the work Brute Force, a name taken from the world of computer science. It is a concept that describes a method of solving a problem by using brute force without thought or sophistication. Thus, between physical experimentation and computational experimentation, a stubborn, repetitive, almost blind action is created – in search of an answer to an incomprehensible image.