The Israeli-American artist began her career in experimental theater. In her solo performances and video works, she stages cultural stereotypes and taboos, which she parodies with a virtuosity bordering on the excruciating. Whereas all of Ben-Tor’s multiple characters possess idiotic features and mumble, slur, stammer, or yell through their multilingual text, they still frequently contrive to bring astonishing truths to light.

in her video Normal Ben-Tor accelerates the spiral of communication of vigorously eloquent email-chains to the point of being intolerable. Visibly overstrained, both from her own demands as well as by those of her surroundings, and exhausted by the uninterrupted flow of multitasking, the protagonist is an example for the everyday madness of a frenzied culture of communication, which now appears to have become an end unto itself.