This is an amazing site. It’s set up as an interactive memorial and activism site to honor the memories of those who’ve died in US immigration detention. It’s counter-writing in that it writes back in what’s been erased or stone-walled by the official record.
Connects to what I’ve been thinking about ways to stretch theatre to interact with audiences in new ways– and my long-standing concern with detention and refugee rights (Slow Falling Bird and other plays).
What is a memorial? The word suggests materiality, place, mossy overgrown stones. An internet memorial? Maybe the internet is the perfect non-place, space to honor ghosts. inter
