Site: Yizkor is a performance and workshop created by visual artist Maya Ciarrocchi with music direction by Andrew Conklin. Site: Yizkor examines individual and collective experiences of displacement and loss through the lens of Yizkor, a framework while inherently Jewish, is not limited to the Jewish experience. Site: Yizkor is a site-specific performance comprised of music and movement, with sung and spoken text in an immersive projected environment. Its source material includes architectural renderings of demolished buildings, maps of vanished places, and prose remembrances gathered during participatory writing workshops. The impetus for the project comes from Ciarrocchi's work centered on disappeared histories. These projects combine historical narratives with embodied and locative mapping to uncover buried pasts and highlight how these erasures are felt in the present.
Site: Yizkor/King Manor is a new iteration of Site: Yizkor and is responsive to the performance site, location, and architecture. Musicians, dancers, and readers will activate the outdoor and interior spaces of the Museum by performing improvisational scores based on architectural renderings of the manor home and historical maps of the area. These diagrams and maps will also be incorporated into the projection design and mapped to the building's surfaces.
Site: Yizkor/King Manor is a new iteration of Site: Yizkor and is responsive to the performance site, location, and architecture. Musicians, dancers, and readers will activate the outdoor and interior spaces of the Museum by performing improvisational scores based on architectural renderings of the manor home and historical maps of the area. These diagrams and maps will also be incorporated into the projection design and mapped to the building's surfaces.
