Rituals for Re-membering explores various ways of noticing this now instant as a portal into re-membering our aliveness. Here, re-membering is not simply recalling what has been—it is the ongoing act of putting ourselves back together in the present. Through the body, memory becomes something we do: disassembling, gathering, rearranging, and beginning again.

 

Paralleling poetic research about the life of underwater creature Turritopsis Dohrnii, commonly known as the “immortal jellyfish” with personal musings about the life/death/life cycles, the underwater world becomes a metaphor for the void; a place beneath the surface that holds important information on how to meet ourselves and each other over and over again. 

The fast paced, multi-emotional, primal, ephemeral piece explores the now instant as an ongoing embodied improvisation; expressed through layers of ritual, story, dance, and play. The body becomes both landscape and architecture: body parts turn into rooms in a home, memories inhabit different corners, and scenography is built through deconstructing and reassembling the body in space. Memory games are learned live. The jellyfish speaks its truth. The deep sea gets splashed in. Mandarins are devoured hedonistically. 

Deliberately non-linear and accumulative, this piece returns again and again to gestures, rituals, memories, and actions while allowing each return to shift and continually become. 

Ultimately, Rituals for Remembering offers an embodied encounter with memory as alive and everchanging: feeling, sensing, playing, desiring, becoming.

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See extended installation here

See video of full show here

PETE Studios. Portland, Oregon. 2026.

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