HANGOVERS (2026)

Hangovers is a project performed by a Mother and her two sons about a missing ancestor – it is a performance that tells a story (well, a fragment of one). At 14 years old, Avram Alter immigrated to the USA from Poland in 1923 with his mother and brother. At the border, Avram was asked to do a puzzle, which he was not able to correctly solve. For this he was deemed “mentally feeble” and was deported back to Poland, where he went missing; for fifteen years now, Avram’s ancestors have researched his traces, and yet nothing about his death nor his mobility have been found. What stories can be told in his absence?

Through the arrival to the US port, the waiting rooms, the toilets Avram might have sat, and through the puzzles he might have solved, Avram’s ancestors attempt to piece together the possible stories of his immigration. Performed inside a 1:12 scale model of the immigration center, the family trace Avram’s steps but realize the impossibility of such a task: who has the right to speak on behalf of the dead? What is the point of remembering family history?