Meronymy

Rachel Jendrzejewski

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53rd State Press
08 January 2025

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Context, Synecdoche, Homonym, and Polyseme live in a house laden with clutter, but Etymology keeps bringing new deliveries for Context: a blank book, a conversation with the dentist, a key. Homonym and Polyseme sort and rearrange; they send what they can to the cloud (via helium balloon); occasionally they smuggle out old things, lost for years, and new things they know Context will never need. Synecdoche tries to hold it all together and sings. Meanwhile, Context wonders whether listening is work-if it is labor, if it matters, and if what matters (if it matters) can be retrieved from the ever-accumulating material of living. meronymy is a kaleidoscopic, audiovisual performance-portrait of the technologies, ancient and modern, by which we cling to what we might otherwise forget. With wry tenderness and formal dexterity, Jendrzejewski builds a space in which to reckon with memory, loss, intrusion, and overflow amidst the cacophonic practice of living in language together.

By: Rachel Jendrzejewski
Imprint: 53rd State Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9798986581408
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 08 January 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rachel Jendrzejewskiis an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborates withchoreographers, musicians, and multimedia artists to explore new performativevocabularies. Her work has been developed and/or presented by Walker ArtCenter, Red Eye, Hair+Nails, Public Functionary, Padua Playwrights, Los AngelesPerformance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, TheWild Project, Rhode Island School of Design, MASS MoCA, and ICA/Boston, amongothers. Published texts includeIn Which _______ and Others Discoverthe End,a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse),encyclopedia(SpoutPress), andAmber(inI Might Be the Person You AreTalking To: Short Plays from the Los Angeles Underground, PaduaPlaywrights). Honors include Playwrights' Center McKnight and JeromeFellowships; residencies at the Weisman Art Museum, University of MinnesotaInstitute for Advanced Study, Everwood Farmstead, and MASS MoCA; and grantsfrom the Minnesota State Arts Board, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,Network of Ensemble Theaters, PEN America, Dramatists Guild Foundation,National Endowment for the Arts, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, amongothers. Rachel is a Playwrights' Center Core Writer, adjunct faculty atMinneapolis College of Art and Design, and a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye inMinneapolis. MFA Playwriting, Brown University.