Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky (they/she) is a cultural worker and organizer based at Brooklyn's Glitter House. Never learned how to make art for art's sake; rarely likes working alone. Third-generation radical; second-generation queer; just another diesel fem diasporist gendertreyf mischling who identifies with, not as. Constant concerns include embodied knowledge and historically-rooted imagination as tools for liberation; vernacular culture as formal experimentation and vice versa; queer & trans & otherwise archives and repertoires of sensation and transformation; diasporist and anticolonial practices of freedom-seeking. Rosza performs (as a theater-maker, dancer, singer) and teaches regularly throughout the Yiddish cultural revitalization svive and Jewish radical world. Ongoing Jewish culture projects include the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee (NYC's largest non-hasidic purimshpil), Koyt Far Dayn Fardakht (Yiddish trans diasporist punk band), the renewal of CYCO Yiddish book center, the forthcoming Oysters of Yiddish Song songbook, the Rooted In This World network of secular Jewish radicals, and the arts co-op emerging from the Radical Jewish Calendar. Recent work has appeared in There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists, HONK! A Street Band Renaissance of Music and Activism, e-flux, Pakn Treger, Czolgosz Szyzygy, and the Lammy-winning Glitter and Grit. More at https://meansof.org
Below is the audio accompanying Rosza’s installation.