Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang and the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations.

Leaning into over a decade of breath, voice, and movement improvisation, this work asks: What forms of intelligence emerge when we honour the body as an ancestral technology with the capacity to puncture time and space?

The project draws from Be’s Toisanese family’s migration during the Gold Rush to explore “Gold Mountain” as both historical reality and diasporic mythology. The work deepens inquiry into inheritance as a site of alchemy, refusal, and repair — exploring how histories of assimilation and diasporic survival continue to live in the body across generations. 

For Be, using tone as language is a diasporic act of resistance to languages lost in a crossing. The work approaches the voice as a living archive, carrying what remains when spoken language is interrupted by assimilation and finding side-ways to laugh, cry, sing, and speak.