Tom Tlalim
Tom Tlalim is a composer, musician and conceptual artist.
Tom Tlalim
Tom Tlalim creates conceptual environments that manifest itself in sound art, performance, installation, text or music. His language is often abstract and focuses on kinetics and movement, but is informed by a central interest in data and patterns, especially those of spontaneous behavior within rational constraints, or the temporal relations between movement, space and memory, and how these influence human social interactions and conflicts.
After starting his career as a guitarist/songwriter in punk bands around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem’s underground scene, Tlalim developed a career as a film composer, collaborating with leading Israeli directors on award-winning films. In 2000, he moved to The Netherlands to complete two Master degrees in Composition and in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Informed by the vibrant interdisciplinary cultural world of the Netherlands, his artistic language developed from compositions, through sound art to generative new media installations, into research-based conceptual work. His work is frequently presented internationally at art manifestations such as at the 90 years Bauhaus in Weimar, the Venice Architecture Biennial, Transmediale, DEAF, Stroom Center for Visual Art, TodaysArt, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Gaudeamus music week, the 3rd international Deleuze Conference. His work is often featured in articles, reviews and interviews.
In 2009-10 he was invited to work as Artist In Residence at the Virtual Museum Zuidas in Amsterdam. The residency resulted in the essay The New Model City, which was published in the book Intimate Stories on Absence, and the video work Walking Through Walls, which was recently described and quoted by Dr. Patricia Pisters in her book on Deleuzian philosophy which is due on Stanford University Press in 2011. Tlalim developed a sound installation for the 90 Years Bauhaus Jubilee at Gaswerk, Weimar, in collaboration with Jan Trützschler and Mike Rijnierse, composed for many ensembles, choreographers Arkadi Zaides, worked with Francisco López, and collaborates regularly with the choreographer Talia Beck. His work is supported by institutions including Stroom, The Hague, The Ministry of Culture, The Lottery Art Fund, AFK and The Fund for Visual Art, Design and Architecture. Since 2010 he is working on a PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, with kind support form fonds BKVB. He is currently collaborating with Martijn van Boven on a new audiovisual film.
