[Kingston, NY]

REPEATED MEMORIES: Michael Ruby and Jon Fried
December 9, 2023, 6:00 pm
at Green Kill

On Saturday, December 9, 8 PM, the Station Hill Intermedia Project presents REPEATED MEMORIES, an hour-long performance drawn from a book by Michael Ruby and from the musical memories of Jon Fried. Sam Truitt directed the video, weaving together old film and video by Immy Humes, Deena Shoshkes and Michael Ruby. Green Kill’s David Schell will be at the controls improvising.

The text is drawn from Michael Ruby’s book FLEETING MEMORIES, first published as an ebook by Ugly Duckling in 2008, and then as part of the trilogy MEMORIES, DREAMS AND INNER VOICES by Station Hill in 2012. The memories were written down over a period of seven years during work as a newspaper editor, and then they were temporarily lost as a result of the collapse of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Jon Fried parallels these memories with snatches of songs from the 1960s to the 1990s. The immersive video includes the World Trade Center from a Brooklyn window in the 1990s, the novelist H.L. “Doc” Humes in 1982 and much more.

This event is both in-person and virtual. Tickets may be bought here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/greenkill/1079149