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Artist archival performance opera retelling the story of a dancer, a beetroot and a A/a/ou/rchive 

Mendel will follow the lines written in a 75 year old letter, cycle 23km, dig up a beetroot, fall down five times, cycle 23km more and create a live erasure poem with the vegetable. 

ABOUT

Elias Mendel (b. 1998, London, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and educator who makes videos, sculptures, drawings, writings, and performances. He is interested in the intersection between memory, roots, and the abyss, and examining legibility, language, and diaspora. Mendel draws from a vast family history and archive.