Temple is a performative musical work that draws, in part, on a passage from Giovanni Boccaccio’s *The Decameron* (1492) concerning the Black Death, interwoven with additional original and appropriated texts. Throughout the performance, the four performers continually transform, emerge, and dissolve, echoing the bodies of those afflicted by the plague. They exist as transient cycles of becoming — ephemeral forms that ripen, decay like flowers, and, for fleeting moments, offer the possibility of solace.
