Videographer: Eyal Refaelov
Participants: Liel Pelleg, Ori Shemer, Hadas Balas, Joy Bernard, Tamar Troudart
Particle Accelerator - Performance Workshop
Mentored by: Alit Kreiz
Ta Tarbut Da Vinci Tel Aviv
February 8, 2026

99:1 is a participatory performance that transforms artistic rejection into a shared ritual. Using a black briefcase, a cup of tea, and 100 real letters collected over years of applications, the artist creates a bureaucratic one-on-one encounter. Audience members draw numbers and receive a stamped, sealed envelope addressed back to the artist, each containing a real rejection letter.

Hidden among the 100 letters is one acceptance note. When that number is called, confetti is released, carefully collected, and mailed along. The work reframes failure as a collective experience, blending dark humor with quiet persistence, and exposing the emotional and bureaucratic machinery of institutional gatekeeping.