Post:places
Solo violin concerts in spaces of former synagogues, houses of prayer, and centers of Jewish community life.
About the project
Post:places is a term I coined to describe locations that remain physically present yet are no-longer-Jewish. These include, for example, former synagogues, houses of prayer, or centers of daily Jewish communal life that today survive only as faint building outlines, commemorative plaques, cultural centers, or galleries. For years, these fragments of our everyday landscape were abandoned, neglected, unwanted-even though they stand as evidence of a vanished world and as an unavoidable element of the surroundings whose presence calls for a new idea.
Repertoire
Over the course of three summer months, I will visit selected po:places cared for by enthusiasts-the “guardians of Jewish memory.” I will perform small, intimate solo violin concerts. I will enter spaces that strongly emphasize their Jewish past as well as those that, at first glance, seem to have little to do with it anymore. The concerts will feature works by Jewish composers, but also pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and-premiering-a new composition by Marcin Zdunik that combines Hasidic nigunim with the form of a fugue. I will also perform my own piece for violin and electronics, “there is almost no one left here anymore,” along with improvisations based on traditional nigunim.
Calendar
- 6 Jul Modliborzyce Municipal Cultural Center (former synagogue)
- 26 Jul Żelechów City Park
- 27 Jul Chmielnik Synagogue · Świętokrzyski Shtetl Center
- 10 Aug Lesko Synagogue Gallery
- 29 Aug Kielce Planty 7/9
- 7 Sep Tarnów Bimah of the Old Synagogue
- 14 Sep Mielec Former synagogue site
- 28 Sep Zamość Synagogue
- 20 Oct Mszana Dolna Library
- 9 Nov Białystok Miejsce · The Jewish Place
Realized with the support of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
