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Dr. Hanna Freund-Chertok

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Dr. Hanna Freund-Chertok is a researcher of art and culture. Her topics of research are modern and contemporary art and critical perceptions of the body in visual culture and philosophical theories. She is a professor at Shenkar, teaching in the master’s in design program, the School of Multidisciplinary Art, and the Unit for History and Philosophy of Art, Design and Technology. Among the courses she teaches are: “Theater, Performance, and Radical Body Art”, “Protest in Design and Art”, and “Contemporary Art and Design”.

Freund-Chertok has a PhD from the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, where she also completed her master’s degree. She holds a BFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design.

She wrote her doctoral thesis on “The Concept of Self-Mutilation in Radical Body Art: A Philosophical Analysis”. Her master’s thesis was on “Feeling and Body in Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgement: A Feminist Reading”.

Her book, Why Would They Do That to Themselves: The Moral and Ontological Status of Radical Body Art was published in 2019 in the “Red Line” series from the Hakibbutz Hameuchad – Sifriat Poalim publishing house. The book was published with a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (ISF).

Freund-Chertok served as head of the Department of Art at Minshar School of Art from 2012 to 2017.

Among Dr. Freund-Chertok’s Articles:

  • “Art Under the Knife: Self-Harm in Radical Body Art” in the book Pain in the Flesh: Representations of the Body in Sickness, Suffering, and Jouissance. Eds. Orit Meital and Shira Stav, Ben Gurion University and Kinnert: Zmora-Bitan, Dvir Press, and the Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Israeli Literature & Culture, Critical Mass series, 2013.
  • “Disgust”: from Mafte’akh – Lexical Journal for Political Thought, Issue 3, Winter 2011, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University, 2011. http://mafteakh.tau.ac.il/2011/03/06-3

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