︎ Say Something Back

My Voice is a Resting Place was collaborative exhibition by Nicola Singh, gentian rhosa and Eo Stearn, curated by Mattie Roberts and supported by Listen Gallery in Glasgow. With live activation performance by Carle Gent and Eo Stearn.

This iterative project explores our societal awareness and capacity for grief and healing, spiritual connection and resistance in the face of continued global, structural violences. Drawing on the use of voice and song in ritual devotion, healing, communal labour and grief practices my voice is a resting place is an invitation to listen and think through these ideas together.

To speak of sorrow works upon it, moves it from its crouched place barring
the way to and from the soul's hall
—Denise Levertov

This audio piece, Say Something Back*, is a recording of a conversation that happened over a shared meal at Listen Gallery’s old Hunter St. location on the 24th of May 2025 between Bosco Lacobucci, Mattie Roberts, Zinzi Buchanan, Riah Nief and gentian rhosa.

Contained within the space of ritual and centred around different question of grief and death from the personal to the political, the conversatio flows through many topics from the care and encounter of dead bodies to th privatisation of grief, to capitalism, spirituality, water and dreams.

Huge gratitude to Bosco, Mattie, Zinzi and Riah for sharing their experience and thoughts so generously and openly.

*Title borrowed from Denise Riley’s book of the same name

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Starter
Vegan Bone Broth
A warming broth made from vegetables
and spices, cleansing and healing for the gut.

Main
Vegan Kitchari
An Ayurvedic cleansing dish made with
spiced moong dal, rice, spices and veggies.
Gut healing and good for overall well-being.

Dessert
Koliva
Popular in Eastern Orthodox traditions
and used since pagan times in grief rituals
and memorials. A sweet wheat berry granola
with nuts, seeds, pomegranate, raisins, and spices.