liz gre

Echoes of Care (2025)
transmediale, Berlin, Germany

“‘Oh daughter, go you in peace and do the works required of you, so that you will have rest and comfort from your enemies and that they will have not the power to harm you and lower you in the sight of your people and belittle you in the sight of your friends.’” – Excerpt from “Mules and Men” (1935), Zora Neale Hurston 1935

Echoes of Care is a collaborative multidisciplinary performance exploring the theme of haunting and Black ways of care and exploring the body as a vehicle for epiginetic memory of carelessness and carefulness. Playing physically with the concept of closeness (of those performing) and proximity (to the audience who remain peripheral), the performance, considers the sound of careFULness and careLESSness and how that sound might echo through our bones, memories, and beyond.

Combining sound (a composition and sound installation by Liz Gre), voice (a performative eulogy by Kwame Phillips), movement (a dance performance by Rebecca Pokua Korang), and intervention (a sonic and gestural call and response by SA Smythe), the piece creates a resonant space of care and vulnerability amidst the layered temporalities of living in a racialized world.

Documentation forthcoming