TRACES

2024

Role: Lead performer (Martine) and deviser

Written and Created by Rachel Jendrzejewski and Wax Factory
Directed by Ivan Talijancic

• Press

  The Walker - Everybody is Performing Themselves: Risk, Performance, and Sophie Calle An interview with Lisa Channer and Lynn Lukas

  MinnPost - Looking back at a moving and memorable year in Twin Cities arts

  BOMB Magazine - Blurring reality and fiction in a performance that tails “Sophie Calle” across the Twin Cities

• Featuring

  Sophie — ERIKA LATTA, SHARON PICASSO, AMANDA BOEKELHEIDE, DOLO MCCOMB

  Martine — LISA CHANNER, MARCELA MICHELLE, MK TUOMANEN, IVAN TALIJANČIĆ

• Creative Team

  Concept/Co-Creator/Director/Co-Producer — IVAN TALIJANČIĆ

  Co-Creator/Writer/Co-Producer — RACHEL JENDRZEJEWSKI

This project developed between 2022 and 2024 in Minneapolis and Brooklyn. The premiere was presented by the Walker Art Center in Fall 2024. View the full program here.

About TRACES

Co-created by Brooklyn-based theater artist Ivan Talijancic and Minnesota-based playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski, TRACES unfolds in real time across downtown Minneapolis. This roving theater piece is based on the opus of French conceptual artist Sophie Calle and follows a fictional character through a series of public locations. In intimate, one-on-one encounters, lone audience members trace her journey, documenting their experiences via audio, photo, and video—ultimately leading to a reflection on the nature of mortality and human connection.

Spy thriller meets participatory performance art in this immersive, site-specific work.