During his three-week residency, Jonathan Berger and collaborators will build a detailed model of Kaunas, Lithuania, as it was in 1941, just before Nazi occupation. The project draws on personal history—his mother’s survival during WWII—and intersects with the writings of Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz on “radical diasporism.” Paired with archival materials, the work reflects on memory, identity, and creating belonging beyond borders or nations.
