In 2018, I invited Rachel Garfield and David Brauner to be part of a panel at the Modern 5
Language Association Annual Conference – to be held in the early part of 2019 in Chicago.
The panel was entitled: ‘Blackness in Convergence/Tension with Jewishness in
Contemporary Art and Literature.’ I had been very interested in Rachel Garfield’s work
for some time (and would like to thank Nadia Valman for encouraging me to explore
Rachel’s work for a project on Jewishness and Blackness). After the panel, we spent some 10
time discussing the trajectories of her fascinating projects at the Swiss Hotel. This is
a revised version of the transcript of this interview