“WITH THE DEAD” AT GREEN-WOOD
With the Dead: A Performance by Eiko Otake
Saturday, May 6 from 3:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, May 7 from 11:00 a.m. until noon
Green-Wood Cemetery – 500 25th Street, Brooklyn
Admission: Free
With the Dead is a place-inspired performance conceived and performed at Green-Wood Cemetery by acclaimed movement-based, interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake. It is presented in conjunction with Mother, her installation in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel. In it, through video and sculpture, Otake converses and dances with her mother, who died in 2019. Beginning in the Historic Chapel and leading participants outdoors, the artist considers what the dead might want from the living and whether through performing she could practice as well as learn about her own dying.
For more about Eiko Otake, please visit her website.
“We all came from a mother, even if some people never met their mothers. From their own birth, mothers contain all the eggs that they will ever have in life. We have been formed from unmeasurable time. Remembering or imagining a mother’s life and body is also to reflect on our own life and body, and beyond.”
— Eiko Otake
The dramaturg for With the Dead is Iris McCloughan.
Photo Credit: Maria Baranova
This event is free, but registration required. To register, please visit The Green-Wood Historic Fund’s Eventbrite page and select your preferred date. Consider making a donation to The Green-Wood Historic Fund so that they can continue to offer free and low-cost programs throughout the year.