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I make art that interrogates how people and places are receptive–and antagonistic–to different histories. My projects often begin with a sustained engagement with a site or memory, and the results of my practice are more like artifacts, traces, or clues to an ongoing event than discrete, “finished” objects. I’m interested in how a place can persist in memory even when it’s outwardly destroyed or made distant. I think a lot about New England. And about diaspora, displacement, and Jewishness. In my sound work, I tend to focus on private moments of transmission that resist nationalistic monopolies on space, narrative, and history. For example, lullabies – a site where political, linguistic, and generational borders become porous. I’ve published music on edition wandelweiser, and/OAR, and El Gallo de Oro (forthcoming), and I’ve performed at DIY venues throughout the United States. I live and work in Providence, RI, and I teach at MassArt in Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, MA.

 

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