Doikayt – Performance for When Souls Stick Closing
@ Comfort Station
2579 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Opening Sunday, October 1st, from 11AM - 2PM
On view through Sunday, October 1st
Closing Reception of “When Souls Stick” Sunday October 1st
11:30am-12:30pm Moon Readings by Rebecca Beachy
12:30pm-1:00pm Performance by Zachary Nicol, Jasmine Lupe Mendoza Carrasco and Hannah Mira Friedland, directed by Gabriel Chalfin-Piney
דאָיִקייט – doikayt – “hereness”
Here and then exists simultaneously in the present as it is retold, rehearsed, reshaped. Through archiving Jewish folktales, studying incantation bowls and Jewish households from the Aramaic period to now, When Souls Stick collages and interprets Jewish history and mysticism to discuss the human impulse, throughout time, to imbue matter with souls and purposes.
The exhibition, corresponding performances and workshops explore how non-conscious objects come to life through mystical encounters, making bonds through human attachments.
In our tale, the Dybbuk (the vengeful ghost), Golem (the savior and destroyer), Ziz (sky and ruler of all birds) and Leviathan (the primordial sea monster) join in a familial affair, connected yet estranged, woven through the sharing of space. Through activated encounters, demons and angels appear.
The audience is asked to engage and move with the performers, following the Anti-Zionist diasporic concept of Doikayt, translated from Yiddish as “hereness.”
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Tags: Comfort Station, Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Hannah Mira Friedland, Jasmine Lupe Mendoza Carrasco, Jess Bass, Logan Square, Zachary Nicol
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