All That Lives: Grief Series Lying in State
Here lies The Grief Series; a body of work. A job. A community. An identity. Daily hours or love and attention that is now at its end.
Friday 27 October - Saturday 4 November
It makes visible the losses that go unmarked. The losses that are not about a heart stopping beating but carry Grief or anger or relief and more too. The ends of jobs, relationships, identities. The homes, or chapters of life or parts of ourselves we leave behind. These losses change us. How might we pay attention to them and give them a good ending? With tears or celebrations or a symbolic act? A divorce cake or a wake for missed opportunities.
By spending time with our endings do we get better at talking about them? Better at letting our feelings crash over our heads then subside. Rather than bottling them up and carrying them with us heavily on our backs.
What loss has gone uncelebrated for you? Is there something you want to mark, alone or with others? We will grieve it with you.
Grief Series: Lying in state is a participatory exhibition exploring how we mark endings and rites of passage in our lives. It is a part of All That Lives, 9 day celebration of those we’ve loved and lost and sends Ellie’s thirteen year long body of work, The Grief Series, out in style.
All That Lives
Join us on a 9 day celebration of those we’ve loved and lost and send Ellie’s thirteen year long body of work, The Grief Series, out in style.
Grief Series (UK) & Zion Art Studio (Mexico) welcome you to celebrate Day of the Dead reimagined with the people of Yorkshire.
Experience beautiful, pioneering visual and digital art, live performance and empathetic conversation during a glorious celebration of life - and death.
Learn about Mexican Day of the Dead traditions and contribute objects to an immersive public Ofrenda to celebrate those you have loved and lost.
With its fair share of provocative events programmed by Centre for Live Art Yorkshire (CLAY) we hope you’ll laugh ‘til you cry, remember the good times and leave with a lighter heart.
Signposting to practical help, advice and local services will be available via our facilitated Crossing sessions with facilitators trained in holding meaningful, helpful conversations around the themes of life and death.
Colourful, playful and contemplative, All That Lives will be a space of connection with radical gentleness at its heart.
From Leeds to Mexico, from silence to conversation.
No Elephants in the room, no skeletons in the closet.
