Movement-based, interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake has often created works in conversation with the dead. In Mother, an installation of two short films in Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel, she talks and dances with her mother, who died in 2019. At the Cemetery, where many mothers have been laid to rest and are mourned, Otake invites viewers to consider the passage that links each of us to the past, a mother, her body, and death.

Born and raised in Japan and a resident of New York since 1976, artist Eiko Otake’s work centers on movement and visual poetry. For more than 40 years, she performed as part of Eiko & Koma, but since 2014 has focused on solo projects. Otake’s A Body in Places has been performed at over 70 sites, including The Green-Wood Cemetery in September 2020. She received a special Duke Performing Award, Bessie Award citation, an Art Matters grant, and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award.

The films in Mother will play on loop, along with visual installation, in the Historic Chapel daily, 10am–5pm.

Free and open to the public, no reservations are necessary. Please consider a donation to The Green-Wood Historic Fund so that we can continue to offer free and low-cost programs throughout the year.

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