The project memoirs was seeded when myself and Elisa Nader - my good friend/ visual artist/designer

/gardener - discovered we both had memoirs from our grandparents. 

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we spent one month in residency at lake studios berlin exploring 

these texts together in the form of music, dance and objects. memoirs is a personal research project exploring identity and stories of migration, we're not sure if it will ever take the form of a 'show' as such.

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WE COLLABORATED WITH JAZZ SAXOPHINIST CHRIStopher WILLIAMS, WHO CONTRIBUTED in PART to THE PROJECT, AS A MUSICIAN.

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my memoir is in the form of the autobiography of my great-grandmother who began life in Zhitomir, russia in 1900. she was living during a time of violence & survived the pogroms, moving between russia, palestine and berlin before settling in the uk with one of her siblings. 

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it was interesting for me to explore her world whilst I was living in berlin ~ it was here she had enjoyed life in her twenties as a student. 

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i've been interested in the migration story, my own story and what a migratory body might mean for me ~ if bodies can keep migrating without moving and how a history of migration and cultural displacement develops and transforms. 

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