Dan Farberoff
Co-founding member of Common Views, Dan Farberoff (Born: Barranquilla, Colombia) is a multinational, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. Dan studied fine arts at the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago in the early 1990s, later moving to Germany (1995-2000), France (2000-2003) and then the UK (2003-2015), where he received his MA in Performance in Cultural Location from the Dartington College of Arts in 2007. Dan is currently based in Berlin, Germany, since 2015. Dan’s works incorporate a wide range of media, including fine art, new media and interactive technology, live presence and somatic practice. The central themes touch on issues of consciousness and embodiment, connection to place and presence, addressing social and environmental conflict, and an increasing focus on a post-anthropocentric perspective and a deep connection with nature. These draw on his extensive background and experience in meditation, awareness and embodiment practices, digital practices and a wide range of alternative living approaches. His work includes collaborations with world renowned dance companies and choreographers, has been acclaimed at international festivals including special selection at FIPA, screened on major television networks, such as ABC or Channel4, and presented at the London Olympics, the Shanghai Expo and the Kassel Documenta.
David Behar Perahia
Co-founding member of Common Views, Dr. David Behar-Perahia (Born: Lyon, France) works on the seam between sculpture and architecture, in a site-specific manner, using a diversity of creative languages, such as sculpture, installation, performance, sound and video. His work examines the interplay between art and action, as well as the concepts of “place” and “public space”, with references to cultural, social, historical and environmental contexts. David lives and works in Tuscany where he founded the Studio Alter’azioni – Commoning Arte e Cultura, Florence, which focuses on collective and commoning actions. Beginning in 2008, David has been working in a participatory manner with communities within diverse cultural contexts. Since 2012 David has been reflecting on the context of the Israeli-Palestine reality, through art projects and academic research, founding the MUNDI_Lab (Urban Design Interventions Lab) in 2016, where he researched the issues of Surveillance, Gentrification and Urban Memory in the shared public space of the city of Haifa. His work has been presented internationally and he has created site-specific projects in the UK, Greece, Poland, Israel, France, Italy (including the 53rd Venice Biennale), Brazil, and Germany.
Common Views Collective Project Team Members
Irit Carmon Popper
Joined the collective as curator for Common Views: Sourcing Water in 2019. Irit works as an art curator, researcher, consultant and associate lecturer in contemporary art and architectural preservation, focusing on interdisciplinary, participatory and site-specific, socially engaged art in sites-in-conflict. She has a BA in Philosophy and Art History, an MA in Art History, a Diploma of Museology Studies, and a PhD in Architecture and Town Planning, researching Jewish and Palestinian artists’ interventions in preserving the physical remains and suppressed narratives of depopulated Palestinian sites.
Saad Abu Ghanam
Joined the collective for Common Views: The Water Way in 2021. Bedouin poet, editor, facilitator of creative-writing workshops for children and educators and a teacher of history and Arabic at the Abu Wadi School in Kuseife in the eastern Negev desert. Saad writes poetry in Arabic and Hebrew. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Jewish history and in political science, government, and Middle Eastern studies, and a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies, both from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He was born and lives in Kuseife.
Katja Arzt
Has been working with Common Views since 2021, and joined the collective for Common Views: Biosphere Berlin in 2022. Professor at the University for Sustainable Development in Eberswalde (HNEE), specialising in sustainable regional development and social processes. Katja established and directed the international Master’s programme Biosphere Reserves Management (BIOM) at the University. She also works freelance as a moderator and mediator, is a mother of two children and has been organised in the “Futurewomen” network since 2020.
Sina Ribak
Joined the collective for Common Views: Biosphere Berlin in 2022. Independent researcher exploring bioeconomy, land use, soil, biodiversity, and solidarity from a critical more-than-human and naturecultures perspective. In her practice of co-embracing natures, she works across a diversity of fields towards social and ecological justice. She is involved in translocal ecosystems (Arts Collaboratory, Green Art Lab Alliance) and collectives aimed at collaboratively shifting paradigms and narratives through gathering, storytelling, trust, sharing, and experimentation.
Ka Rustler
Joined the collective for Common Views: Biosphere Berlin in 2022. A pioneer in the field of improvisation and dance and co-author of multi-layered productions. Ka performs with numerous artists, framing social and ecological contexts theoretically situated within feminist understandings of embodied subjectivity. Her work derives from somatic methods and systems, exploring their application and relevance at the interface of performance-neuroscience-somatics, in natural and urban environments. Ka is married and mother of two children.