Nurit Eini-Pindyck

Areas of Expertise

Visual Arts

Email: nuritep@brandeis.edu

Current Project

My work-in-progress “The Suitcase Project” incorporates performance art, site specific installations, writing and video presentations.  This year I will be developing presentations of the Holocaust narratives included in this project. I have been collecting these narratives in Berlin, Israel and my mother’s home village of Buberke/Boyberik (in Poland, currently in Ukraine). 

Biography

Nurit Eini-Pindyck is a visual artist who was born and raised in Israel. Previously a Systems Analyst who worked for a decade in management teams for large organizations, she has been collaborating with other scholars since joining WSRC.  She has been co-producing, co-directing, co-performing in public events such as Jewish-German Dialogue of Artists (2002),  Feminist Dance performance by three generations of women (2002), Mother’s Day Celebrations (2003, 2004, 2005).  In Memory of Scholar Elizabeth Mark, she co-coordinated an event on March 28, 2007 about the Jewish Rite of Circumcision.

Eini-Pindyck creates participatory events and installations in the process of conducting her long-term research/art projects: Gender & Religion, Performing Women’s Narratives and the Transformation of Loss.  Her site-specific interactive art installations at local universities address issues of women in Judaism (“House of Gender,” Tufts University, 2001) and women’s memories of the Holocaust (Brandeis University’s Science Building, 1999).  Since 2003 she has been performing “Women’s Narratives as a Form of Resistance” and “The Drama of Motherhood.”  “The Suitcase Project: a work in-progress”, following the death of her mother, includes so far street performances, video productions and creative writing.   

 

Education

M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts

M.A., Brandeis University

B.A., Tel Aviv University

Representative Publications

Eini-Pindyck, Nurit.  “Hatzlelponi.”  Praise Her Works: Conversations with Biblical Women.  Ed. Penina Adelman.  Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2005.  123-33.

Eini-Pindyck, Nurit.  “Performances of Women’s Narratives” (collaborative presentations).  Emory University, 2003; SUNY New Paltz, 2003; Oregon, 2004.

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