Location
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT
About This Event
Taking its point of departure from her newly released memoir, My Father, the Messiah, this public conversation brings together Gil Hochberg and Ariel Goldberg for a community access TV-style dialogue on national psychosis, mental illness, queer awakening, written and visual vernacular of photography, ethical documentation, boycott, organizing, settler violence, family archives, memory, and more.
Moving between memoir and archive, image and testimony, personal history and collective struggle, this conversation asks how we inherit, refuse, and remake the stories that shape us.
Copies of My Father, the Messiah, will be available for purchase.
In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic episodes. Hochberg reconstructs her relationship with her father through an archive of letters between the two, as well as her father’s personal writings, painting a tender portrait of the non-normative family life within which Hochberg’s queer identity unfolds and a heart-rending account of her father’s mental decline. Hochberg crafts a powerful story of intimacy and loss that dovetails with sea changes in Israel’s religious and political environment since the 1990s.
Accessibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.
For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.
About This Event
Taking its point of departure from her newly released memoir, My Father, the Messiah, this public conversation brings together Gil Hochberg and Ariel Goldberg for a community access TV-style dialogue on national psychosis, mental illness, queer awakening, written and visual vernacular of photography, ethical documentation, boycott, organizing, settler violence, family archives, memory, and more.
Moving between memoir and archive, image and testimony, personal history and collective struggle, this conversation asks how we inherit, refuse, and remake the stories that shape us.
Copies of My Father, the Messiah, will be available for purchase.
In her memoir My Father, the Messiah, Gil Hochberg traces a father-daughter relationship as it transforms across decades—from intense closeness in childhood to a fraught distance as Hochberg’s father Yossi becomes increasingly convinced that he is the Messiah. After building a career as a statistician in the US, Yossi returns to Israel and becomes an avid Zionist, while having several psychotic episodes. Hochberg reconstructs her relationship with her father through an archive of letters between the two, as well as her father’s personal writings, painting a tender portrait of the non-normative family life within which Hochberg’s queer identity unfolds and a heart-rending account of her father’s mental decline. Hochberg crafts a powerful story of intimacy and loss that dovetails with sea changes in Israel’s religious and political environment since the 1990s.
Accessibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.
For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.
Getting There
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Location
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013
United States
Date & Time
6:00pm EDT - 8:00pm EDT