Distractions revisits a performative format that Danny Neyman first established in his 2016 performance “Helsinki,” developing it into a different work with new texts, other structural logics, and in the Hebrew language. Neyman sits at a desk filled with notes with various types of text — personal diary entries, documentary writing, transcripts of conversations, book quotes, excerpts from social media, sex chats and more — and reads at random a sequence of text coming in from all directions. It is a monologue of intimacy and discontinuity; an attempted meditation on distraction, an associative cloud, and a semi-accidental portrait that oscillates between the personal and the impersonal, echoing and contemplating a contemporary sense of disorientation.
