Patterns of Protest

Patterns of Protest studies the ephemeral choreography of civil resistance. Presented as a central installation at the Tel Aviv City Museum, the work isolates the movement of protest from its political messaging, treating the crowd as a living, breathing spatial organism.

The project relies on a unique collaboration with The Democracy Archive, utilizing their exclusive aerial footage of mass demonstrations to trace the hidden geometries of collective action: how a chaotic group of strangers spontaneously organizes into patterns of flow, density, and reclamation.

The visual language is not arbitrary; it is driven by the sonic reality of the street. Collaborating with sound artist Nir Jacob Yonessi, who captured field recordings from over 40 demonstrations, the project creates a generative feedback loop:

The project positions protest as a form of Spatial Authorship. When bodies take over a street, they rewrite the city's logic. Traffic lines become gathering spots; open plazas become fortresses. The work visualizes these ephemeral architectures, showing how individual vulnerability transforms into collective agency.

This soundtrack is composed of field recordings captured across two years of protests. The audio served as background sound during the creation of the video work, affecting various parameters in the generative visuals.

This project acts as a companion piece to Anthropomass (2021):

Together, they form a dual study of human-scale systems, archiving both the weight and the rhythm of democracy.