A Cathartic Exercise in Rage is a durational, participatory performance that creates space for self-identified persons of African descent to collectively engage in the transformative release of rage. Grounded in the intergenerational impacts of servitude, colonization, economic disenfranchisement, systemic racism, and state-sanctioned violence, the work summons a necessary and often suppressed emotional truth: rage as a valid, embodied response to centuries of harm. Within a room painted firetruck red, the artist stages the performance adorned in all white and accompanied by one hundred delicate white ceramic objects—referred to as “white fragility.” These objects become offerings to rage itself, catalysts for participants to confront and expel inherited and contemporary wounds. By inviting others to join in this release, the work constructs a rare environment where Black participants may express rage freely, without fear of surveillance, policing, or retribution. As the performance unfolds, the shattered remnants of white fragility accumulate, forming a material archive of collective catharsis.

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