Visiting the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial by proxy2019Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Miami beach by proxy is a three channel video installation. The performance was informed by my decision to not visit the memorial in person and instead visit through instagram geotags and hashtags of the memorial. This is the first memorial l had a relationship with. The names of 17 of my family members are inscribed in the granite walls surrounding the arm. In the performance for the camera I withhold imagery of both the site and the social media posts interacting with it. I instead use language and my arm as a prop to represent the memorial and the social media performativity at the site through embodied gesture.
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