Grieving Landscapes

January 16 - January 27, 2024

11:00AM - 6:00PM

Urban Arts Space

Add to Calendar 2024-01-16 11:00:00 2024-01-27 18:00:00 Grieving Landscapes The exhibition and the performances on January 25, 26, and 27 are free, but space is limited to fifty people per event. Online registration opens on December 1, with each performance beginning at 6:00 PM! The performance on Friday, January 26, will be livestreamed via Zoom.Zoom LivestreamReserve your free ticket!Grieving Landscapes is a performance installation that explores the transformative power of grief through an investigation of grief practices and rituals. We honor that we grieve more than just the death of our loved ones. We also mourn relationships, life changes and transitions, social injustice, and the destruction of our environment. We acknowledge that grief practices are culturally specific and that not all people are granted equal access to the right to mourn publicly.Within this framework, Grieving Landscapes attends to the traumas of marginalization – racism, ableism, anti-queerness – and the death of self that is necessary to survive. We publicly honor this death and survival as resistance to white supremacist, cishetero-patriarchal capitalism and engage in speculative choreographies that imagine our future made possible by the liberating power of the grieving process.In the space of the installation, we create and hold space for the complicated webs of pain, joy, catharsis, and the honoring or troubling of ancestors that grief entails. In her 2021 essay, “Grief belongs in social movements. Can we embrace it?” Malkia Devich-Cyril writes, “What loss hates most is to be ignored.” In turning our eyes toward loss in its multiple manifestations, we make space for grief to transform the world as we know it into the world in which we want to live. In this landscape, audience members and performers will co-create speculative responses to the question: What and how are you grieving?Choreographer and Project Developer: Nico LawsonCollaborating Dancers: Yitong Chen, Siera Dance, Mercedes Hicks, Brittni Van DineCollaborating Musician: Dorian HammInstallation Collaborator: Arris’ CohenPhoto Credit: Lexi Clark-StillianosWebsite: https://grievinglandscapes.wordpress.com/ Urban Arts Space OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

2024-01-16 11:00:00 2024-01-27 18:00:00 Grieving Landscapes The exhibition and the performances on January 25, 26, and 27 are free, but space is limited to fifty people per event. Online registration opens on December 1, with each performance beginning at 6:00 PM! The performance on Friday, January 26, will be livestreamed via Zoom.Zoom LivestreamReserve your free ticket!Grieving Landscapes is a performance installation that explores the transformative power of grief through an investigation of grief practices and rituals. We honor that we grieve more than just the death of our loved ones. We also mourn relationships, life changes and transitions, social injustice, and the destruction of our environment. We acknowledge that grief practices are culturally specific and that not all people are granted equal access to the right to mourn publicly.Within this framework, Grieving Landscapes attends to the traumas of marginalization – racism, ableism, anti-queerness – and the death of self that is necessary to survive. We publicly honor this death and survival as resistance to white supremacist, cishetero-patriarchal capitalism and engage in speculative choreographies that imagine our future made possible by the liberating power of the grieving process.In the space of the installation, we create and hold space for the complicated webs of pain, joy, catharsis, and the honoring or troubling of ancestors that grief entails. In her 2021 essay, “Grief belongs in social movements. Can we embrace it?” Malkia Devich-Cyril writes, “What loss hates most is to be ignored.” In turning our eyes toward loss in its multiple manifestations, we make space for grief to transform the world as we know it into the world in which we want to live. In this landscape, audience members and performers will co-create speculative responses to the question: What and how are you grieving?Choreographer and Project Developer: Nico LawsonCollaborating Dancers: Yitong Chen, Siera Dance, Mercedes Hicks, Brittni Van DineCollaborating Musician: Dorian HammInstallation Collaborator: Arris’ CohenPhoto Credit: Lexi Clark-StillianosWebsite: https://grievinglandscapes.wordpress.com/ Urban Arts Space America/New_York public

The exhibition and the performances on January 25, 26, and 27 are free, but space is limited to fifty people per event. Online registration opens on December 1, with each performance beginning at 6:00 PM! The performance on Friday, January 26, will be livestreamed via Zoom.

Zoom Livestream

Reserve your free ticket!

Grieving Landscapes is a performance installation that explores the transformative power of grief through an investigation of grief practices and rituals. We honor that we grieve more than just the death of our loved ones. We also mourn relationships, life changes and transitions, social injustice, and the destruction of our environment. We acknowledge that grief practices are culturally specific and that not all people are granted equal access to the right to mourn publicly.

Within this framework, Grieving Landscapes attends to the traumas of marginalization – racism, ableism, anti-queerness – and the death of self that is necessary to survive. We publicly honor this death and survival as resistance to white supremacist, cishetero-patriarchal capitalism and engage in speculative choreographies that imagine our future made possible by the liberating power of the grieving process.

In the space of the installation, we create and hold space for the complicated webs of pain, joy, catharsis, and the honoring or troubling of ancestors that grief entails. In her 2021 essay, “Grief belongs in social movements. Can we embrace it?” Malkia Devich-Cyril writes, “What loss hates most is to be ignored.” In turning our eyes toward loss in its multiple manifestations, we make space for grief to transform the world as we know it into the world in which we want to live. In this landscape, audience members and performers will co-create speculative responses to the question: What and how are you grieving?

Choreographer and Project Developer: Nico Lawson

Collaborating Dancers: Yitong Chen, Siera Dance, Mercedes Hicks, Brittni Van Dine

Collaborating Musician: Dorian Hamm

Installation Collaborator: Arris’ Cohen

Photo Credit: Lexi Clark-Stillianos

Website: https://grievinglandscapes.wordpress.com/

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