Catch Perform Chinatown, this Saturday. The inaugural public performance of Yelena Zhelezov’s Pop Up Pedestrian Memory Bureau will take place from 6 to 9 pm. The Pedestrian Memory Bureau is a part of Yelena’s Six Points Project and this will be the first of many compelling and interesting events and performances to come.

A social service that caters to the ephemeral need to relive the past, the one-person institution travels through Los Angeles in the manner of a Euro-Jewish peddler, providing shade, water, carrots, sewing supplies, and book information in exchange for the re-enactment of social-spatial memories through the use of miniature ceramic architecture. Informed by the experiences of the Post-Soviet Jewish population of LA, the Bureau examines how the landscape has absorbed immigrants’ ideas of space from their homeland. In this way, the Bureau attempts to create small discursive bridges between two disparate geographic locations.

Yelena’s interest in the spatial and temporal disconnect from the site of familial history and ideology comes from her relocation to the United States. This first appearance will take place in Chung King Plaza in Chinatown as part of Perform Chinatown LA.