your ticket to deathbed stories is a hand-me-down object––something you have inherited, or something that you would pass down to others.

entering beth sholom’s gronowski chapel, participants will place their object anywhere in the room. the resulting heirloom arrangement will then unfold into a living network of bodies––present and absent, still and moving, sounding and silent.

taking off from the story of jacob’s death, the ritual will open a portal to the collision of past and future, and turn physical heirlooms into now-time encounters with jewish spiritual inheritance.

san francisco based performance group foreignfire creates aesthetically powerful events in the overlapping area of performance art and jewish ritual

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