https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com Stories of Personal Growth Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:49:01 +0000 https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com en https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com/Front-page-copy Thu, 23 Dec 2021 20:49:01 +0000 Stories of Personal Growth https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com/Front-page-copy InsideA narrative performance by Rachel Eve GinsbergLearn more about the work Stories of Personal Growth is a durational performance project that is often indistinguishable from every day life. It’s based on the idea that telling stories about ourselves to ourselves and other people helps us to understand where we come from, who we are, and to become the people we most wish to be. Expanding for the first time beyond the artist’s interior life, Inside is the premiere offering in the Stories of Personal Growth series—an intimate narrative performance that takes place in domestic space for one single person at a time. A collision between immersive theater and memoir, Inside invites the guest to become witness and collaborator by unlocking stories—some informative, some vulnerable—hidden within objects in the environment. An exploration of the interplay between time, memory, and personal history, this one-on-one experience is defined by its site-specific nature, the artist’s home in Brooklyn, NY. Experience Inside  https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com/About Tue, 07 Dec 2021 03:40:26 +0000 Stories of Personal Growth https://storiesofpersonalgrowth.com/About Home Performative explorations that blur the line between reality, fantasy, and identity. About the Project Stories of Personal Growth developed out of my longstanding belief in the connection between imagined identity and the ability to become what we imagine ourselves to be. Much as life is a durational performance for all of us, why not give ourselves permission to conceptualize paths from reality to fantasy to reality? More a platform than an individual intervention, Stories of Personal Growth includes individual and group performances, intimate self-exploration, embodied practice, and conversational experiments to be widely shared, or not. The purpose is not to create something for consumption by an audience, but rather to interrogate our self-perceptions, recognizing that the more we practice growth, the better equipped we are to experience it and to help facilitate it for others.How might we collectively identify and move through denial? How might we support each other in exploring who we imagine ourselves to be? How might we, explore, unfurl, and ultimately live out the most expansive versions of our selves?About the ArtistMy name is Rachel Eve Ginsberg, and I make art that explores relationships of all kinds  – myself with myself, myself with other(s), and other(s) with other(s) – in the hopes of creating catharsis and growth and building muscles to promote the same. My work crosses a wide range of media, including still and moving images, audio, interactive installation, and textile arts, and typically involves performance (individual or collaborative) and/or the documentation of experience into tangible artifacts, or  ephemerally, outside of time and space. Much of what I make can be described as praxis, in that I constantly generate, apply, and advance theories and frameworks about life and what it means to live it. If we’ve spent any time together it’s likely you’ve experienced this. My love for and draw towards this kind of generative systems thinking crosses every area of my life, also as a professional. If you’d like to learn more about that, I encourage you to do so. My work has been programmed as part of Sundance’s New Frontier, IDFA DocLab, and the New York Film Festival.                       Get in touch