Activism
Uri is a founding member of Free Jerusalem, a grassroots anti-apartheid activist group in Jerusalem, as well as Solidarity Sheikh Jarrah movement, Hamabara, and Jerusalem Rhythm of Resistance. Uri organises against the dispossession and displacement of Palestinian families in Jerusalem, home demolitions and evictions, and police violence, for redistributive justice, public housing, and political rights, and, as a part of BP or not BP?, to end oil sponsorships in UK arts. Uri publishes texts on politics and culture in publications such as Haaretz, The Forward, 972Magazine and Tempo, and composes music that is directly linked to struggles for change.
Most of Uri's music deals with political issues, below are a few works that employ music directly within political action, or that bring activism into musical performances.
A 1,500 participant performance action to pressure the British Museum to stop its oil sponsorship, themed around the Troy war myth. [continue reading]
Custodian- An Oratorio for a Choir that Acts (2018), combines the Biblical myth of Naboth’s vineyard with the real story of the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) attempts to evict a Palestinian family... [continue reading]
MARCH for COMA
A piece for narrator and flexibel ensemble exploring the rhtyms and dynaimcs or political marching. Click to watch the full performance.
A piece for four actors and live electronics exploring the Isreali political discourse, about protests at home and abroad. [Continue reading]
An Argument in Favor of Preaching to the Choir
A paper given on Eavesdropping Symposium April 2020
Selected writings
An Argument in favour of Preaching to the Choir, Tempo (English)
Israel's Largest Music Club Dances with Far Right Groups to Host Festival in Palestinian Neighborhood
Laurie Anderson’s “Political Scream” is But an Awkward Silence, Haaretz (Hebrew) and Mondwiess (English)
How settler groups could use annexation to deepen Palestinian dispossession, 972 (English)
The True Crime of “Jerusalem District”, Haaretz (Hebrew)