Shokh
By Katy Beinart
2020
- Film and Video
- Live Art
- Printmaking
- Personal Narratives & Identity
- Abstract & Conceptual
- Heritage & Archives
- Chess
- Games
- Language
- Artists Film
- Video Performance
- Performance To Camera
Dimensions
14 minutes
A film of a performance by Katy and Rebecca Beinart using Yiddish characters to play a chess game, playing with the form of correspondence chess. The game is based on a 1927 game by Rudolf Spielmann and Rudolf L'Hermet. Part of the exhibition Correspondences at Five Years London.
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