March 1, 2024
Margot, Brooklyn
Featuring:
Oscar Cuevas
Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo
JJ McDonald
Maggie Millner
“Auld Lang Syne”—New Year’s tuning fork—opens with a question. Its familiar call to blush and harmonize and clink our way through some collective yet private vigil, its bittersweet spirit tied to endings as effortlessly as to beginnings. We use moments and songs and days like these to make order of our lives and call the act anniversary. We use anniversary to symbolize an entire ecosystem of memory. What the fuck is an anniversary anyway? Anniversary measures length of time. What constitutes anniversary? Anniversary is an inescapable return. Which is most meaningful to you? Maybe a birthday, a ceremony, a funeral. What do you repeatedly honor? Rituals make meaning. Are we trapped by it? Sometimes. Are we made from it? Many times. Does your body know the song before you remember the words?