Avital Barak is an art curator and cultural scholar based in Lisbon. Since 2024 she has been a researcher 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 the facilitation of transdisciplinary research groups dedicated to the method of "collective investigation." This method focuses on gathering collective knowledge through group encounters, free of hierarchy and leadership. It is rooted in artistic research practices and encourages both spatial and virtual exploration. Over the past decade, she's published articles in prominent journals and publications in Hebrew and English, edited the online magazine Ma'arav, and co-edited the book The Mount, The Dome and Th Gaze - The Temple Mount in Israeli Visual Cultur (2017).

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