CareForce is a transmedia public art project, mobile studio, and web-series amplifying the voices of America’s fastest-growing workforce–caregivers.

For the past six years, Morán Jahn has collaboratively developed work with caregivers and care-receivers to produce know-your-rights tools, an episodic film, and artworks that dignify care work. Produced in partnership with a dozen grassroots organizations, these works have reached over 20,000 workers and employers on the ground and millions more through international media presence.

A new work commissioned by the Blackwood Gallery, Choreography of Carework explores how care work involves remarkable bodily labour and often-repetitive motion, yet in many jurisdictions care workers are excluded from the labour protections available to other workers. Choreography of Carework chronicles Morán Jahn’s collaboration with domestic workers to choreograph a dance whose booty-shaking gestures narrate the movement for domestic workers’ rights, joyfully reclaiming the caring body as one that has been historically proscribed from US labour law, and insisting on the visibility of undocumented care workers and care work writ large. Through personal reflection and interviews with Vero Ramirez, Guillermina Castellanos, and Marcia Olivo, Choreography of Carework generates unlikely connections between ergonomics, domestic labour, immigration, and the politics of space.

Since 2013, Morán Jahn has been recording songs sung by domestic workers that she meets while travelling in her custom-designed jalopies, the NannyVan and CareForce One. In 2017, Morán Jahn gave Diana Nucera (a.k.a. Mother Cyborg) her recordings of caregivers singing hymn and labour-movement song “Amazing Grace,” for her to remix into electronic dance music. For Take Care, Morán Jahn will use this song in a collaboration with care workers to choreograph a dance inspired by the global diaspora of domestic workers.