REHEARSAL FOR A FAMILY - A PERFORMANCE, READING & EXHIBITION SERIES
Rehearsal for a Family is a reading, performance, and exhibition series that reimagines notions of kinship, family, and belonging. Assembling artists, poets, playwrights, dancers, parents, and children within domestic and cultural spaces between New York City and Buenos Aires, the series invites participants to share new or in-progress work, in both English and Spanish. This series enacts a practice of assembly and queer family-making, politicizing the often-invisible and historically feminized space of the home. In an ongoing commitment to rehearsing transformative constellations of care, family, and poetics, this series gets to the heart of social poiesis, asking: how can we assemble differently amid the ongoing crises, genocides, and atrocities of late capitalism? How might we relate anew and imagine making life otherwise? 

Rehearsal for a Family is situated in the feminist tradition of breaking down the divide between private and public, putting a new sociality into practice—one that honors the expansive creative force of making life, making art, and making community. In this spirit, the host or visiting artist at each reading prepares a communal meal to provide care and foster connection between all who are gathered. 

Co-organized by Geraldine Barón and Sylvia Gorelick, the reading series has featured artists and collaborators including Alexis Almeida, Mirene Arsanios, Gauri Awasthi, Lorenzo Bueno, Corina Copp, Denise Groesman, Benjamin Krusling, Laura Henriksen, Agostina Luz Lopez, Lucía Reissig, Florencia Vecino, and Morgan Vô, Simone White, Lila Zemborain, among others. 

Through collective praxis, rehearsal, and determined nonarrival, Rehearsal for a Family works to undermine the capitalist structures that rely on the exploitation of social reproductive labor. The series privileges the ephemeral, the domestic, the marginal, the daily, the unfinished, the small, the queer, the precise material that nurtures desire and makes life, again and again. 

2023 - Ongoing