JOSHUA SCHWEBEL
Joshua Schwebel will present an artist's talk on the event of his exhibition "A Dream in Which I Am You" and the launch of his novel (co-written with his sister, Shoshana Schwebel).
During the talk Schwebel will unwrap this expansive project that he developed over the past two and a half years. The artist's talk, performing the work's narrative unspooling from its source, will repeat and release the project's memory.
The project began in 2015 when Schwebel was selected for a research residency in Poland hosted by the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation. The residency offered a chance to encounter the work of Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), a pre-eminent artist of Poland’s avant-garde, whose interdisciplinary practice powerfully addressed trauma, loss, and memory in the wake of the Holocaust.
The current work involves a sequence of symbolic gestures orbiting around the relationship between absence and memory cobbled together into a gestural work, using absence a tool to split and double the artist, and his account of what happened. By combining fictional and historical sources, the project as a whole questions the relation between identity and memory, asking whose memories occupy us when we remember.
During the talk Schwebel will unwrap this expansive project that he developed over the past two and a half years. The artist's talk, performing the work's narrative unspooling from its source, will repeat and release the project's memory.
The project began in 2015 when Schwebel was selected for a research residency in Poland hosted by the Tadeusz Kantor Foundation. The residency offered a chance to encounter the work of Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990), a pre-eminent artist of Poland’s avant-garde, whose interdisciplinary practice powerfully addressed trauma, loss, and memory in the wake of the Holocaust.
The current work involves a sequence of symbolic gestures orbiting around the relationship between absence and memory cobbled together into a gestural work, using absence a tool to split and double the artist, and his account of what happened. By combining fictional and historical sources, the project as a whole questions the relation between identity and memory, asking whose memories occupy us when we remember.
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Artist talk