︎ Grief Song

The Pirate Academy is a series of research festivals and gatherings run at the Art Academy in Bergen, aimed at alternative communal forms, pirate practices, and fugitive art making. Organized by Brandon LaBelle.

Grief Song was a performative reading exploring personal and political aspects of grief, considering the ways grief is privitised in western culture and confined by capitalist interests. In the reading, I made a call to listen to grief's urgency and layers whilst constructing a small memorial shrine. The banner contains a poem by Mary Oliver.