Victoria Hanna - Ke-Mi-Ah -ויקטוריה חנה - קמיעה , Art of Enchantment Eretz Israel Museum

A living amulet, inviting us to a vocal session of magic taking place in our body. Based on the artist’s study of amulets, which she transforms into musical scores. As part of her ongoing research over the years, the vocal artist Victoria Hanna adapts materials from the world of Jewish mysticism, transforming them into experimental musical interpretations/expressions. Her current work is a study of ancient Hebrew amulets in various collections both in Israel and abroad. From her perspective, an amulet is a physical space, a magical-textual mechanism with a specific order, goal and style that has survived for thousands of years into the present. Using her voice, Victoria Hanna translates the two-dimensional amulet into a musical score. The amulet and magical text it contains are transmuted into a theatrical vocal structure. They resuscitate a charged dialogue in the soul of the amulet’s writer, who calls upon the ancestors and upon different angels to come to his assistance, while conjuring up the names