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Ancestral Clean-up
Performance for Video
Duration: 3 min. 4 sec.
Ancestral Clean-up addresses the transmission of trauma across generations, considering how lived experiences are carried forward through bodies, behaviors, and memory. Rather than illustrating trauma as a singular event, the work attends to its accumulation; and how it appears through repetition, cyclical action, and embodied habit.
The performance centers on an ongoing attempt to clean, wipe, and contain seepage and stain. This labor is deliberate and unending, foregrounding care as both necessity and futility. An audible humming accompanies the action, functioning as a meditative practice and a restrained act of vocal reclamation, an effort to restore presence where silence has been enforced.
Resolution is intentionally withheld. What remains visible is not erasure, but persistence: trauma moving through the work like a circulatory system, marking lineage and inheritance rather than closure.