Reassignment

Beginnings are rarely erased. They are reassigned. When power cannot deny an origin, it relocates it. What once had a place, a people, and a memory is gradually repositioned—until the new location feels natural and the original context feels distant, even irrelevant.

Reassignment is not an act of destruction. It is an act of authorization. Whoever controls where something is said to begin controls who may speak for it, interpret it, and inherit from it.

This process is usually quiet. It arrives through timelines, classifications, translations, and “standard” narratives. The original carriers are not always removed; more often, their authority is softened, footnoted, or detached from the story altogether.Over time, the reassigned beginning appears clean and universal. The original one is treated as subjective.

This room exists to make that movement visible—not to fix origins in place, but to ask who benefits when beginnings are moved, and what is lost when inheritance is separated from memory.