Protocols

31/01/2022

From Issue 10: “Mechitza 7.1.”

Performance artist Tobaron Waxman collaborates with dancer Jesse Zaritt and composer James Hurley to create a motion-activated surround sound environment using field recordings that Waxman made in domestic spaces in the occupied territories of Palestine and in men’s prayer spaces from his Chassidic life in New York.

In Mechitza 7.1, an elision is made between sacred/taboo space and ‘ethnically cleansed’ space, using interactive audio, as a way to interrogate the notion of border and binaries. Mechitza 7.1 reflects on the segregatory architecture, imposed by the state, that controls public and private space....

24/01/2022

"I kind of spent all my writing life writing about violence, and, when it hit home in this way, I was really unprepared for how much it would affect me, the pain and shock that I felt after that...I saw my identity as a Latin American and a Jew, and a Latin American Jew, targeted in two ways at that particular moment."

From Issue 10: Poet Daniel Borzutzky in conversation with Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman.

"I kind of spent all my writing life writing about violence, and, when it hit home in this way, I was really unprepared for how much it would affect me."

18/01/2022

“After Halle was created in collaboration with 10 survivors, including the artist, of the mass shooting in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur in 2019. The sound installation offers a site for listening, grieving, and healing. Visitors are enveloped in the sounds of survivors humming niggunim that were sung in the Halle synagogue on the day of the attack. Humming is a tool used by trauma survivors for self-soothing, both for the hummer and the listener.”

From Issue 10: “After Halle,” a sound installation by Talya Feldman

After Halle was created in collaboration with 10 survivors, including the artist, of the mass shooting in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur in 2019. The sound installation offers a site for listening, grieving, and healing. Visitors are enveloped in the sounds of survivors humming niggunim that were sun...

09/01/2022

From Issue 10: “Mishkan Motherboard,” an art book by EMILY DREW MILLER & Joelle Milman

"We stared into the grooves of the limestone and wondered how space was organized within the stone and how it seemed like a motherboard, arranged just so, each a small description of the information (buildings) that held the city together. Through painting the stone and translating the paintings int...

27/12/2021

"When a temple of spiritual or secular power is hidden or demolished, the future becomes unpredictable, enabling a utopian potential. To unveil temples again, to reproduce them, is to shove a cork back into the bottle of time, sealing the fate of humanity."

From Issue 10: "Making and Unmaking City Centers" by Zach Whitworth

“The ‘secular temple’ is a misnomer, for temples have always been ‘secular’ in that they literally exist in and order this world.”

27/12/2021

From Issue 10: “When is Zion,” a series of three digital collages by Miryam Bat Muhammad

Born to Jewish and Muslim parents, Miryam Bat Muhammad is a multimedia artist and digital curator. Her work focuses on Jewish, Muslim, Sefarad-Mizrahi, Balkan, and LGBTQ+ identities.

20/12/2021

“Doing the work of public history in neighborhoods with diverse, complex, and contested histories might implicate all of us in processes of real estate development, displacement, and erasure — regardless of our intentions.”

From Issue 10: Caroline Luce considers Jewish tourism from Boyle Heights to Babruysk in “Searching for Temples.”

"Doing the work of public history in neighborhoods with diverse, complex, and contested histories might implicate all of us in processes of real estate development, displacement, and erasure — regardless of our intentions."

16/12/2021

Introducing... Issue #10: TEMPLE 🔥

Featuring Caroline Luce, Miryam Bat Muhammad, Zach Whitworth, Emily Drew Miller, Joelle Maxx Milman, Avi-ram Tzoreff (אבי-רם צורף), Tobaron Waxman, Jesse Zaritt, Rudy Gerson, David Hartt, Camille Eskell, Daniel Borzutzky, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Talya Feldman!

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Featuring Caroline Luce, Miryam bat Muhammad, Zach Whitworth, Emily Drew Miller, Joelle Maxx Milman, Avi-ram Tzoreff, Tobaron Waxman, Jesse Zaritt, Rudy Gerson, David Hartt, Camille Eskell, Daniel Borzutzky, Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, and Talya Feldman!

23/08/2021

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