Safy Etiel aka VJ SNIPER
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Star Search & Destroy, # multi-vision. A sketch for an audio-visual performance

Safy Etiel aka VJ SNIPER is a multimedia artist, born in Israel 1960, living in Berlin since 1986. Since the 80s he has done stage performances and music performances integrating visual elements and video. In 1987, together with Ron Katzir, he launched the performance form of a video concert, “The wonderful world of Ron & Safy”, and created the first Laservision / Laserdisc works as installations and solo performances. He initiated and produced in collaboration with Heinrich Dubel “Geladen” in 1988, a festival for electronic art and audio-visual performance in Berlin, followed by a sequel in 1991, “Schand floete fuer Schlechte Musikanten”, and SNIPER in 1995: a permanent electronic art and performance festival, without the limitations of time or space. Safy Etiel pursued from 1991 to 1994 Visual Arts studies at the Gerrit-Rietveld-Akademie in Amsterdam.

As one of the VJ pioneers of the Berlin club scene, VJ SNIPER performances span worldwide. From the natural habitat of clubs and festivals, becoming increasingly an integral part of music performances, classical concerts, theater, and dance productions.

Accompanying the ICSQ Tel Aviv with “Different Trains” by Steve Reich, or the KNM Berlin with “The Photographer” by Phillip Glass, to name a few.

In collaboration with the SWR Orchestra he accompanied the project “Game Over”. In a VJ-Performance Workshop, he had developed visual concepts together with students of the HFG Karlsruhe and the März Akademie Stuttgart. The students and their work were actively involved in the final performance.

Long-term cooperation with the performance group Phase 7, among others. In the projects "Mormuration" in Norway and China, "Burning Snow" in Sweden, and "Himmels Mechanic" in the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Since 2017, he regularly accompanies the "Neue Meister" series in "Drive" in Berlin as a VJ.
Safy Etiel creates visual atmospheres, produces video and sound installations and loves to break and aesthetically provoke classical viewing habits. By looping, Rearranging and choreography, the delivered content of the home Entertainment industries turns into a compact flow of overlapping audiovisual strands, In them, the banal and the totalitarian of the media are condensed into a meditative, sometimes difficult to tolerate, Nevertheless, always humorous view of things.

With his audiovisual solo performance, "Star Search & Destroy", he has traveled the world and ignited controversy again and again.