The Zip Code Memory Project Presents Imagine Repair
Join the Zip Code Memory Project to celebrate the power of community and care in neighborhoods unequally affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. Following several months of creative workshops engaging participants from across Upper N.Y.C. Zip Codes, the exhibition and performances express a collective desire for renewed hope, connection and transformative justice.
The opening events of IMAGINE REPAIR on April 23 will take place in the Nave of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divineand include performances and presentations by Imani Uzuri, Alicia Grullon, Marie Howe, Fred Moten, Amyra Léon, Rev. Juan Carlos Ruiz, George Emilio Sanchez and Noni Carter with workshop participants, and a concert by Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir. Visitors will be invited to listen and share their wishes, hopes and demands.
The exhibition will be hosted in the Chapel of St. James at the Cathedral. This anti-monumental exhibition includes projects produced by community participants in ongoing workshops; collaborative installations of neighborhood stories and voices; along with works by Kamal Badhey, Jordan Cruz, Maria José Contreras, Judith Helfand and Gabriela Canal, Chelsea Knight, Susan Meiselas, Lorie Novak, Desiree Rios, Carrie Mae Weems, and Deborah Willis. In collaboration with the Brooklyn Museum, a satellite installation of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s A Crack in the Hourglass, An Ongoing Memorial for the Victims of Covid-19invites the public to add portraits and stories about those they lost to the work’s online archive at acrackinthehourglass.net.
The exhibition is curated by Işın Önol, in conversations with multiple workshop participants, and assisted by Aya Labanieh. Curatorial and artistic contributions by workshop participants include Birim Bademli, Erachie Brown, Cathleen Campbell, Yves Dossous, Leah Elimeliah, Yiğit Eygi, Sonja Jean Killebrew, Seçil Koman, Candance Leslie, Sandra Long, Zahied Tony Mohammed, and Jim Mutton. The public performances and events are curated by Alo Gorozpe.
Admission is free on April 23. After that date, visitors are encouraged to purchase timed $5 tickets in advance at stjohndivine.org
Would you like to collaborate with us? Contribute to a Phone Booth for Anonymous Feelings – a project conceptualized and developed by Chelsea Knight, with Sandra Long, Candance Leslie, and Zahied Tony Mohammed. We invite you to share a brief memory of significance to your COVID experience. Leave your 1 to 3-minute story as an anonymous phone message at 917-781-4612. The public will be able to listen to a selection of anonymous memories during the Imagine Repair exhibition. The stories will also be hosted on our website.