Hillel Kogan dances into the heart of this difficulty and great pleasure ensues. His most recent works, Rite of Spring and We Love Arabs, are an extreme and often comic adventure in the most treacherous Israeli cultural terrain, exploring its sacred sites and hidden places.

As I’ve said in regard to Rite of Spring: The seriously seditious artist finds ways of working with and within conventions, undermining and confounding expectations explicitly and implicitly within the work itself, in a performance so brilliantly executed and enthralling that the viewer is mesmerized, heart racing, mind dazzled. Hillel Kogan is that kind of artist… Kogan is an endlessly versatile performer and creator with a volatile imagination capable of igniting several revolutions at once.