Common Views: Tent of Assembly at Kumzits Festival, JCF30
Tent of Assembly is a durational performance installation presented in 2021 at the Kumzits Art Festival, Krakow, Poland, which explores resilience, displacement and nomadism in a time of rising water levels, increasing climatic and social-ecological pressures on vulnerable human habitation. A group of performers ventured along the streets of Krakow’s old Jewish quarter of Kazimierz over the festival’s 10 days, erecting a makeshift, modular structure, which they took down every evening. Members of the public were invited into the structure, to take part in a conversation about displacement and listen to collected recorded stories of recently displaced persons residing in Krakow.
By David Behar Perahia & Dan Farberoff, in collaboration with Oskar Krason & Adam Zdunczyk.
Kumzits was commissioned by the 30th Jewish Culture and supported by the Foundation for Polish – German Cooperation, Goethe Institute Krakow, The City of Krakow and The City of Jerusalem.
