The Mourner: Lamentation in Dust 2019
This work was commissioned by ANTIfestival 2019 as part of a five day performance festival. The program traced various iterations of death in an attempt to open-up thinking around our relationship to it and to the many sets of phenomena that surround it. Ideas die, eras end, materials become obsolete, things break, technology supersedes itself, places are abandoned, the natural world is destroyed, social and political ideals are overthrown, and plant, animal and human life is finite. The Mourner: Lamentation in Dust consisted of a 5 day performance dressed in black with a mourning veil sweeping and collecting the fragments that remained in a disused factory space in Kuopio, Finland. The mourner ordered the fragments and made a cemetery in dust that she tended and cared for as part of the performance.
Anti Festival, Kuopio, Finland 2019 link to video documentation.