Whispers from the past is an ongoing shapeshifting performance that departs from the focal element of rhythm in traditional markings. Participants are invited to join in creating ink through pestles and mortars. The performance is a meditation on oral histories as an ephemeral device for passing on ancestral knowledge, the specificity of who receives agency to pass on knowledge and to whom knowledge is passed on to. Like a game of whispers, the ending of each performance becomes the point of departure for the following performance.