my 14th grandmother

Work

There was a study done on roundworms, that proved they remembered a learned, environmental trait for 14 generations…

This film calls on intuitions and memories of both human and water bodies that engage their grandmothers 14 generations back through imagined embodied archival evidences found in movement. Four bodies, searching across fragments that emerge while submerged in underwater portraits, and the ghosts that are given chance to speak through reflections on the surface.

My Fourteenth Grandmother was created through the Creative Individual’s grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board (2021). It was premiered at the Trylon Theater in Minneapolis, MN (2022), and then presented at the Outlet Dance Project Festival (New Jersey 2022) and in online journal the Pinky Finger Press (2023).