DIALOGUES
How do diverse Jewish communities handle the question of safety?
How do excluded voices make space for themselves?
featured artists
Katz Tepper, Still from Roasted Cockroach For Scale, Digital video with color and sound, 2021
Katz Tepper is an interdisciplinary artist whose work casts an inward gaze to reflect on environmentally scaled situations, concerned with entanglements that dissolve boundaries between internal and external. Through shifting methodologies, their practice embraces the disruptive potentials and aesthetics of illness. Solo presentations of their work include White Columns (New York), Atlanta Contemporary (Atlanta), Species (Atlanta), the Dodd Galleries at University of Georgia, Howard’s Athens (Georgia), and The Hand (Brooklyn). Group shows include Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying at Red Bull Arts, Detroit. Their work has been featured in Mousse Magazine, Art in America, Art Papers, Art Review, Art News, TimeOut New York, ArtNet, and Burnaway. Their writing has appeared in Burnaway and HTML Giant. In the pandemic they taught an international remote course through BARD OSUN called Problematizing the Object in Remote Conditions. Tepper was born in Florida in 1987 to parents from a lot of different places, and is now based in Athens, GA. They are a recipient of the Wynn Newhouse Award and a MacDowell Fellowship, and will be in residence at Stove Works in 2022. They earned a BFA from the Cooper Union and an MFA from Bard College.
Arielle Tonkin, Savta And Her Avatar, Oil on canvas, 2016
Annabel Rabiyah, Family Heirlooms, Family recipes recorded by members of the Rabiyah family, Circa 1999
Audio excerpts from In The Kitchen (2020), directed and devised by Coral Cohen and written, created, and performed by Hannah Aliza Goldman.
Hannah Aliza Goldman
Hannah Aliza Goldman (she/her) is a performer, writer, producer, and voiceover artist based in Brooklyn. Her original theater project In the Kitchen, commissioned for the International Human Rights Arts Festival, has enjoyed private home performances and a sold-out run at Access Theater. With the support of the 2020 Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant, Hannah and her team adapted In the Kitchen into a pandemic safe version: an audio play and accompanying recipe box. As a writer, Hannah has contributed to Alma and The Forward. She is an active member of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ) and produced their inaugural Mimouna event celebrating Mizrahi culture.
Coral Cohen
Coral Cohen (she/her) is a director, writer, and performance deviser born and raised in Los Angeles and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work spans multiple forms, mediums and subjects, but is largely defined by an emphasis on creative collaboration and deep engagement with the people and subjects she approaches. Her devised work focuses on interrogating cultural history through personal storytelling. Coral’s collaborative process encourages all the artists that she works with to push the work to its best possible form and to take ownership and agency of the work itself. In 2019, Coral produced, devised, and co-wrote Between the Threads, an original ensemble theatre performance about Jewish women in America exploring their relationship to Judaism at HERE Arts Center. Coral has been collaborating with Hannah Aliza Goldman on In the Kitchen since the workshop in October 2019 at the Access Theatre. Up next, Coral has written and directed a short film, Wresting Place, which is slated to premiere in 2022.
Arielle Tonkin
Arielle Tonkin (they/she) is a queer mixed ashkesephardimizrahi artist living on Ohlone land in the so-called SF Bay Area. Arielle works to dismantle white supremacy through art practice, arts & culture organizing, and Jewish and interfaith education work. The Muslim-Jewish Arts Fellowship, Arts Jam for Social Change, Tzedek Lab, SVARA, and Atiq: Jewish Maker Institute are among their networks of accountability, collective power, creative collaboration and care. Recent solo and group exhibitions of their work include Orienting Practice at the Rubin-Frankel gallery at Boston University and Queering Jewish Diasporas at Omni Commons. Arielle’s artwork and social practice presences, queers, and formalizes the belief that healing through relationship can shift the fabric of social space and eventually, one braided thread at a time, shift the structure of the physical world.
Annabel Rabiyah
Annabel Rabiyah (she/they) is an urban farmer, chef, and cofounder of Awafi Kitchen, an Iraqi Jewish cultural food initiative based in Boston. Through sharing recipes and making meals, Awafi pays tribute to a lesser-known culinary heritage. In addition to their social media presence, Awafi Kitchen hosts pop-up restaurant events, virtual cooking demos and presentations on Iraqi-Jewish history. Awafi Kitchen is a platform centered on building community between members of the Iraqi diaspora, Jews with lesser-known histories, and anyone interested in the history and stories behind food.