Dear fellow Hanoverians:
Performance and visual art comes to Hanover’s John Curtis Free
Library with Betsey and Gregory Josselyn’s newest work, /This Will
Actually Happen/, supported in part by a grant from the Hanover
Cultural Council on Saturday, October 19 at 3 p.m. Paintings
incorporated into the performance will also be on view at the library
for the entire month of October. /This Will Actually Happen/, a
performance, painting, and artifact display inspired by the early
twentieth century diaries of the late Hanoverian Nora Hanson, is
easily belied by its apparent simplicity. But the closer you look –
or, the harder you listen, and the more vibrantly you imagine – the
more you begin to see in Nora’s period relics and life story, as her
seemingly mundane diary entries transform into reflections on memory
and inheritance, reminding listeners of their own struggles to
constitute histories and identities from invisible fragments.
Although the piece offers historical musings on the years leading up
to Nora’s wedding engagement from 1919 through 1922, the real story
showcases Betsey’s and Gregory’s process of translating all of
Nora’s archives into a cohesive art piece — to give her life again
— and encourage audience members to reflect on their own family
legacies. It will also feature oil paintings by Betsey Josselyn of
Nora’s objects. Since the performance’s original presentation in
London in May 2012, /This Will Actually Happen/ played at Mobius, an
experimental art venue in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Norfolk Street.
Betsey and Gregory Josselyn’s /This Will Actually Happen /premieres
Saturday, October 19 at 3:00pm at the John Curtis Free Library, 534
Hanover Street, Hanover, Massachusetts. The performance is free and no
tickets are required. Paintings will be on display at the library
during the month of October. For further information, please contact
Gregory Josselyn at gjosselyn@gmail.com
.
For “Around Town on the Web”,
Cathy H-B
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