On This, Your Baptism is an installation and performance by Cindy Hernandez Mathis. Staged within a parish basement, the event investigates the popular material culture of baptismal party kitsch through a communal celebration of our personal feast day, the day of our Baptism.

Tickets are $15. Now available!

Engaging with popular memory of visual tropes such as chiffon cakes, lace and party favors, the event stages a conflict between twee, sentimental aesthetics that both uplift and obscure the transfigural, sacramental reality of Baptism. The installation is accompanied by a performance in the spirit of relational aesthetics in which participants are invited to receive a slice of cake. The cake slice is an invitation towards celebration and quiet contemplation of one’s own baptismal identity. 

Flyer by Cindy Hernandez Mathis

When:
Saturday, May 9th
3-5pm

Where:
St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church
246 E 15th St
New York, NY 10003