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Part chamber music, part media art, part film and theater, this shape-shifting work owns as many haunting identities as its host-muse, Lafcadio Hearn. Hearn’s great-great-grand niece, Jean Laurenz, and multimedia sound artist Maria Finkelmeier explore the turbulent undertones and uncanny narratives of his celebrated nineteenth-century Japanese stories. Through this multilayered work, audiences will create their own sensory entrance into life’s deepest questions, questions whose fibers weave into every ghost story, spiritual mantra, and subliminal experience.

Riddled with Hearn references, this performance piece weaves together thematic materials, quotes, and metamorphic vignettes from Lafcadio’s haunted life and morbid imagination. It highlights his fascination with Buddhist-inflected ghost stories and symbols.

Maria Finkelmeier’s music forms a narrative engine as the artists uncover Hearn’s philosophies on eternal memory, infinite wisdom, and supernatural interference. Jean Laurenz’s trumpet and vocals call her ancestry back into the present sphere through sound and story.