meital yaniv, Courtesy of homeLA, 2023  Photo: Aronne Chan

meital yaniv
Sunday June 1, 2025 | 2PM-5PM

With rafa esparza and Dance Church

ABOUT THE WORK

rattle death rattle 

we are digging the grave of empire, we are the dirt of the grave.
face the fire 
what is a prayer for a land that is already in the process of being returned.
Right of Return is Land Back
the tunnels of Gaza exit in the backyards of Turtle Island
death prayers and love letters 
keep the undercurrent wide and widening 
Olive Trees and Red Woods 
the fire is asking for your offerings.

ABOUT MEITAL

meital yaniv (b. 1984, Tel-Aviv, occupied Palestine) is learning how to be in a human form. they do things with words, with moving and still images, with threads, with bodies in front of bodies, with the Earth. they are a death laborer tending to a prayer for the liberation of the land of Palestine and the lands of our bodies. they keep Fires and submerge themselves in Ocean and Sea Water often. yaniv is learning to listen to the Waters, birdsongs, caretakers, and ancestors as they walk as a guest on the home and gathering place of the Cahuilla-ʔívil̃uwenetem Meytémak, Tongva-Kizh Nation, Luiseño-Payómkawichum, and Serrano-Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga’yam. yaniv is the author of bloodlines. They make offerings through true name collective. Instagram: @bloodlines_book

The LAX Micro Fest is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, and is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture. Los Angeles Performance Practice is also supported, in part, by The Mellon Foundation, The Perenchio Foundation, and the California Arts Council.