Performance art is a provocative medium that functions as an evolving relation between the self and the other, oftentimes questioning traditional ideas of trauma-related issues while creating a bridge in which representation, memory, and resistance operate as restorative acts to reclaim, transform, and renew the body as a site of refuge when historical accounts of shared trauma impose themselves on the broader narrative. Paper 1 (Jafarpour) discusses performance in post-1979 Iran, showing how feminist gestures, public mourning, and street-level actions reclaim cultural memory under censorship and restore grievability in the public sphere. Paper 2 (Vega) advances the concept of the “scarring body” in Chicano/x Latino/x performance art, through a phenomenological analysis, arguing that pain and healing are entangled processes through which artists transform colonial, gendered, and racial wounds into healing and affect. Creative Project 1 (Vahed) presents an account of her restorative somatic practice through the simple, repetitive act of dressing and undressing oneself. These monotonous gestures operate as a safe haven that carries fatigue, memory, and ultimately, renewal, as evidenced by the body’s capacity to restore itself through routine actions. Together, these ideas form the panel’s aim to scrutinize the restorative actions that foreground marginalized bodies' visibility by showing how performance becomes a space for reimagined personal and communal narratives through reparative, iterative acts of remembrance.