Meronymy
Context, Synecdoche, Homonym, and Polyseme live in a house laden with clutter, but Etymology keeps bringing new deliveries for Context: a blank book, a conversation with the dentist, a key. Homonym and Polyseme sort and rearrange; they send what they can to the cloud (via helium balloon); occasionally they smuggle out old things, lost for years, and new things they know Context will never need. Synecdoche tries to hold it all together and sings. Meanwhile, Context wonders whether listening is work—if it is labor, if it matters, and if what matters (if it matters) can be retrieved from the ever-accumulating material of living. meronymy is a kaleidoscopic, audiovisual performance-portrait of the technologies, ancient and modern, by which we cling to what we might otherwise forget. With wry tenderness and formal dexterity, Jendrzejewski builds a space in which to reckon with memory, loss, intrusion, and overflow amidst the cacophonic practice of living in language together.
Rachel Jendrzejewski is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborates with choreographers, musicians, and multimedia artists to explore new performative vocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Walker Art Center, Red Eye, Hair+Nails, Public Functionary, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, The Wild Project, Rhode Island School of Design, MASS MoCA, and ICA/Boston, among others. Published texts include In Which _______ and Others Discover the End, a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse), encyclopedia (Spout Press), and Amber (in I Might Be the Person You Are Talking To: Short Plays from the Los Angeles Underground, Padua Playwrights). Honors include Playwrights’ Center McKnight and Jerome Fellowships; residencies at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study, Everwood Farmstead, and MASS MoCA; and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Network of Ensemble Theaters, PEN America, Dramatists Guild Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others. Rachel is a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, adjunct faculty at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye in Minneapolis. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.
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