in this time of ruins (2025)
three-part video instellation & performance
first iteration: Evanston, 2025
How might we live with the grief,
the weights, the uncertainty of ruins?
What demands do ruins make on
how we move, remember, and dream?
This multimedia performance connects
the 2023 earthquake in Southeastern Turkey,
the ongoing genocide in Paletine, and
police and state violence in Detroit to consider
our present moment as a time of ruins.
Stretched between mediated representations of violence,
compulsions of patterns, and horizons of wishing,
the performance explores
confusions, losses, and transformations
that accompany an iterative choice
of staying with the time of ruins.
Through poems, songs, vides and images
collected across Antakya, and Detroit,
Ruins is an invitation to question
our collective responsibility as witnesses
and those who act in the present
to shape a future.
image credit: emily melissa photography