Add Architecture, Stir Memory: TX – JAPAN

A Workshop Production by Shay Youngblood

with special guests kt shorb and Lyndon Gill

Saturday, 28 June 2014 – 5-7pm  @ Salvage Vanguard Theater, Austin, Texas

Free and open to the public

What is the effect of memory on architecture? What is the effect of architecture on memory? How do our early memories of home shape who we become? I traveled from Texas to Tokyo in the spring of 2011 to ask these questions in the form of interviews with Japanese creatives, that would be the research for a novel set in Hawaii and Japan. Ten days after I arrived, Japan experienced the strongest earthquake in its history, which triggered a powerful tsunami and set off a nuclear disaster. In this multimedia performance I share my experience of home in Japan, my creative process and invite the audience to participate in shaping my work-in-progress.

*This workshop production is made possible with support from

ALLGO: A Texas Statewide Organization for Queer People of Color

“Impossible Landscape” artwork: Adrienne Brown