hangovers (2024)
performed at the Württembergischer Kunstverein
in collaboration with my mother, Lisa Kaplan
performing alongside my mother, hangovers looks at long-term family research into a missing ancestor, Avram Alter, who was deported from the United States back to Poland for failing a mental examination at age 14. Zoom-call interviews, never-performed theater scripts, lectures into their research, and Matzah-ball soup summons ghosts that have unfinished business to do, and the performance unfolds the ethical and dramaturgical crisis occupying the space between artifacts, narrative, and death: what are the limits of speaking on behalf of the dead?
