Join The Contemporary Austin and Fusebox for an intimate conversation with celebrated artists and storytellers Jad Abumrad and Paola Prestini. The pair will discuss their collaborative work Por(tal), which premiered at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in May 2025 and was also presented at PS21 Center for Contemporary Performance in June 2025.
Functioning as a "musical séance," Por(tal) is a site-specific choral theater work that reawakens the ghosts of the Brooklyn Navy Yard—a place steeped in history as the center of America's war-making effort, and an engine for social progress.
