The House Wears Our Memory Like Skin is a site-responsive offering; a ritual of remembrance, transformation, and queer imagination.
This project is an homage to the places that shaped us, the people who saved us, and the ghosts that haunt and hold us. It is our love letter to chosen family, queer ancestors, abandoned objects, and the stories written into the shorelines and shadows of Staten Island.
Alice Austen House, once a home, now a historic LGBTQ+ landmark, serves as a grounding point. We scatter personal relics across its grounds: driftwood shrines, embedded household objects, hair in the hills, pantyhose stuffed with memory. We reflect on queer solitude, secrecy, lineage, and the process of becoming.
We ask: What do we inherit? What do we carry? What are we ready to leave behind?
This is not a monument. This is a living archive.
A temporal, embodied queer spell.
Join us at
@aliceaustenhouse on 10.11.25.
This event was made possible, in part, thanks to a 2025 DCA Grant from
@nyscouncilonthearts and
@statenarts . ❤️
