“…Trance, a site-specific art installation by filmmaker Pearl Gluck and musician Basya Schechter. Using fragments of lived experience from the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue and its surrounding historic neighborhood, Trance is a sound and video installation that breaks boundaries and sparks cross cultural dialogue between the Asian and Jewish communities on the Lower East Side.
Through oral history interviews, video footage from the neighborhood, and spiritual and secular sound fragments, Trance will take the viewer on a conceptual journey through this historic house of worship, pausing along the way to pay tribute to the many people who have moved through and around this landmark site. Revealing itself gradually via hidden sound and video-scapes, the installation will utilize single-channel film monitors, speakers and individual head-sets so that each journey is uniquely experienced. Breaking boundaries between inside and out, past and present, their new work will seek to redefine the topography of memory and community, blending the architectural space with the worlds it inhabits.”
