Jasmine Hearn’s Memory Fleet: Time & Trinity was performed at Danspace Project on March 7, 2026 as the opening performance of Platform 2026: Secret Gardens.

Performed by Jasmine, Charmaine Warren, and Marýa Wethers, Time & Trinity is part of Memory Fleet which is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance and archive project that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared memories and stories that center the work/rest & past/future of the Black people who mother and mentor.

Continuing a decade of research, Jasmine travels to their teachers—people and places in order to sit at their feet and listen to stories, memories, and lessons. Sourcing these conversations, unwritten codes, gestures, and movements, they assemble memories as material—remembering/imagining recipes and maps of dances, songs, and designs for a joining of celebration and resilience.

Platform Writer-in-Residence, Myssi Robinson is not only the archivist of this Platform but has been archiving alongside Jasmine Hearn’s work for many years now. This video poem archives not only the March 7th performance but weaves together a moving tapestry of the Memory Fleet arc to date. 

Please enjoy the video poem along with Myssi’s reflections below. 

P O E M  N O T E : 


As witness, I uplift the roles that Mama Charmaine Warren and Marýa Weathers hold in amplifying, structuring and mothering the Black makers of our community and of the holistic ways that Jasmine Hearn crafts space for the edges of their expressivity.  I’ve gathered many times beside the three of them across the past four years; one of the ever-shifting constellations woven into the root system of Jasmine’s practice.  This video poem quilts a range of archival video material into an altar that layers memory— wild and patient, like Jas and the land have taught me.  It follows a recipe of intimacy, tended through time …. the parts never written down.  Within Jasmine’s practice, I reflect on the nourishment, imagination, and labor that it takes to sustain remembrance in the face of  many systems that insist we  forget.  I edit these archival materials to amplify this calling; to string the effort up on the fences of Jasmine’s homelands. I trace Marýa’s hands as they construct universes; sit crosslegged before Mama Charmaine’s omnipresent glory. Catching spirits peeking behind the columns, I witness as archetypal guides ride creative stewardship, claiming performance as balm, redistribution, remembering, homecoming, becoming visible… Here is a sacred trio in a perpetual motion of mothering.  A shoreline within the geography of individual and collective histories. Taking care, fooling around, channeling right, breathing deep.  On a Tuesday afternoon they drink tea and prepare for a weekend of outwardness inside a very old church. The fleet is up the river, pulling the ocean with it, and the garden is under foot. 

Thank you Jasmine / Byronné
Thank you Mrs. Claudette Nickens Johnson
Thank you Marýa / Sylvia
Thank you Mama Charmaine / Pearline
Thank you to all mothering Black people
Thank you to all the lands rooted 
To the ones who built the church … may our dreams here feed your rest.  

S O U R C E  
M O M E N T S : 

JULY 2022 … Chocolate Factory Residency
SEPTEMBER 2022 … Loose: Sing today (Hyperfest)
JANUARY 2023 .. Salt and Spirit  (Pioneer Go East x The LGBT Community Center’s Out-FRONT! Fest)
MARCH 2024 …  Pilate: Lift Off (Estrogenous Festival)
JULY 2024 … Residency at ICA Boston
DECEMBER 2024 … Ancestral Lands Visit 
7 MARCH 2026 … Memory Fleet: Time and Trinity before dress rehearsal 
JUNE 2026 … Memory Fleet: Beloved Let’s Cross at New York Live Arts 


S O U R C E 
S O U N D S : 

Jasmine Hearn original compositions Surrendering to the Wind
Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s My Journey to the Sky 
My Journey to the Sky channeled by Coline Creuzot 
Desert Poem written + recited by Marýa Wethers 
Myssi’s hum