Sitting with Stern Ibolyka, 2002: live, interactive multimedia theater
media: live performance with video characters
exhibitions: developed at The Kitchen in New York - 2002; presented at Crazy Space in Los Angeles - 2002; Dixon Place in New York - 2003

Sitting with Stern Ibolyka, a collaboration with theater artist Yvette Feuer, merges live and recorded images in an experimental narrative based on the story of Feuer's grandmother, Holocaust survivor Stern Ibolyka. As the live performer interacts with projections of herself, the telling of a personal history is pieced together. A curtain of white reveals multiple characters, all projected images of the solitary performer. Within the course of the performance, Feuer's mirrors images take on new roles - one acting as her grandfather, another as a petulant child. Video and live images mingle, revealing the shifting line that delineates past from present, memory from fantasy, and personal from collective history.