October 1, 2024 - January 6, 2025

Displacement Codes: Contemplative Performance and the Climate Crisis

In collaboration with Karina Kesserwan

Erlangen, Germany and Montreal, Quebec


This 13-week collaborative project is part of my Forced Migration and Refugee Studies: Networking and Knowledge Transfer Fellowship at the Centre for Human Rights in Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Displacement Codes centers around 13 prompts, adapted from AI-generated outputs, each designed to inspire reflection and performance-based responses to the lived experiences of displacement.

Claude Schryer in conversation with Devora Neumark - e217 of conscient (season 6) - "sitting with emotions"

Follow Karina Kesserwan’s blog entries on the project here: https://displacement.codes/2024/10/01/devora-neumark/


Displacement Codes: Contemplative Performance and the Climate Crisis

Karina’s written responses are delayed by 1 week and end one week after the last prompt (December 31st – January 6, 2025). Links to the responses will be added each week.


Devora’s Prompt Schedule:

  • Week 11. Tuesday, December 10th – Monday, December 16th
    • The last of it (last stop, what’s left from what you were carrying, last portion of ration/ energy)
  • Week 12. Tuesday, December 17th – Monday, December 23rd
    • Exhale (every time I hear Exhale I think of your work on exhaling Devora; letting it out; healing…)
  • Week 13. Tuesday, December 24th – Monday, December 30th
    • The wind remembers (the memories remain, wind unites people who are scattered, telling the stories, wind of change)