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Monument for an Audition
Brian Getnick
Artist-in-Residence
August 6-19, 2021

Brian Getnick collaborates with Tim Tsang to create a digitally rendered actress who auditions for the role of Bea in AFTERMATH, a play by Getnick about a family in a hellscape. Within the installation, the actress's audition loops on a monitor adjacent to a monument to Bea’s alter-ego: that of a knight astride a prancing horse. Made of clay, paper and straw, the monument is designed to return to the earth as decomposing matter; a rustic effigy to a deathless actress fumbling her lines.

Music and soundscore for Monument for an Audition composed by Peter Hernandez (aka Julius Smack).

This project is made possible with the support of Yiddishkayt’s David Shneer Memorial Grant of the Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship to foster new creative work rooted in Yiddish language, culture, and history.