Avital Barak is an art curator and a scholar of culture, movement, and performance. Since 2024, she has been a research fellow at CineLab/IFILNOVA, NOVA University Lisbon. Her PhD focused on the potential for resistance visible in manifestations of preformative bodily movement in public space. Her curatorial work includes research-based exhibitions, public events and leading transdisciplinary research groups. Over the past decade, she has curated research-based solo and group exhibitions in Israel and abroad, and published articles in prominent journals and publications in Hebrew and English.
Since 2017, she has been co-developing a method of ״collective investigation״ at the Institute of Public Presence at the CDA, Holon. A method based on accumulating collective knowledge based on group encounters, free of hierarchy and leadership. This method is based on artistic research practices, spatial and virtual wandering, and transdisciplinary gathering. 

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