(construct)Clearing

Performance Documentary

Created during the 2021 Hi-ARTS Critical Breaks Residency

25 minutes; 56 seconds

As a meditation on quiet care, intention, intergenerational movement, and labor (construct)Clearing seeks to understand how we wear and repeat family patterns of silence and separation. The work speaks to the experience of migration—moving from country to town, across countries, across towns—and seeks to present the pain around the unspoken suffering experienced during the separation of caregiver and their charge. The work features Tanika I. Williams, choreographer Nehemoyia Young, and Svaha Williams.

S. Ez’rom Williams, Director

Cliff Wins Gabriel, Director of Photography

Duane X. Garay, Photographer