who's gonna clean the mess in/of your garden?
performance arts
30 minutes
material: black synthetic hair, In Search of Our Mother's Garden by Alice Walker, bin bags
commissioned by: Grand Union, Hettie Judah, Coventry Artspace, Spill Yer Tea
(dis)placing, re-imagining, and harvesting.
Inspired by In Search of Our Mother's Garden by Alice Walker (1972), and the beings (in melissandre’s lineage) who clean(ed) other people's house/work space. This is an invitation to honour invisible work(ers) and the (im)possibility to heal wounds created by systemic subordination.
Photo : black synthetic hair on floor with audiences walking on them or carrying them during performances and workshops in Liverpool, London, Coventry, and Birmingham (GB)
Images credit: Ayesha Jones , Aleksadra Moras, and Jazamin Sinclair, who’s gonna clean the mess in/of your garden?, Coventry Artspace, Grand Union, Spill Yer Tea (GB), 2021, and 2022
Credit: Ayesha Jones, Aleksadra Moras, and Jazamin Sinclair
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