Karrabing Film Collective, Night Fishing with Ancestors, 2023 (still).
With Ends in Mind
Death and dying are ever-present. We live through an era of mass extinction, reverberating with grief of colonial violence, capitalist extraction, environmental destruction and climate catastrophe. How can we learn from holistic palliative care practices to bring our personal experiences of loss to planetary care?
With Ends in Mind is the first in a series of itinerant gatherings convened by Undead Matter. They will bring together practitioners across fields engaged in being with the dying, from palliative care workers and death doulas to ecologists and activists. Through conversations and shared ritual, we seek to learn new ways of being present, weaving interconnections between individual grief and collective ecological urgencies.
We invite you to attend with your departed in mind, as well as those unborn and those in the future who may never be; human and more-than-human.
Holding our dead and our fragilities with us in the present, With Ends in Mind, will reimagine futures, nurture agencies and seek new ways of being.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sophie J Williamson is a curator and writer based in London and Margate. She is the initiator and convenor of Undead Matter, a commissioning, broadcasting, publishing, and research programme focused on the intimacies of dying and its dialogue with the geological. From 2013-2021, she was Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre, and was previously part of the inaugural team at Raven Row (2009–13). Her writing appears in ArtMonthly, frieze, Elephant, October, and numerous exhibition publications and journals. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Goldsmiths, titled Being-with-Dying: Living with Agency in the Anthropocene.
Death and dying are ever-present. We live through an era of mass extinction, reverberating with grief of colonial violence, capitalist extraction, environmental destruction and climate catastrophe. How can we learn from holistic palliative care practices to bring our personal experiences of loss to planetary care?
With Ends in Mind is the first in a series of itinerant gatherings convened by Undead Matter. They will bring together practitioners across fields engaged in being with the dying, from palliative care workers and death doulas to ecologists and activists. Through conversations and shared ritual, we seek to learn new ways of being present, weaving interconnections between individual grief and collective ecological urgencies.
We invite you to attend with your departed in mind, as well as those unborn and those in the future who may never be; human and more-than-human.
Holding our dead and our fragilities with us in the present, With Ends in Mind, will reimagine futures, nurture agencies and seek new ways of being.
BIOGRAPHIES
Sophie J Williamson is a curator and writer based in London and Margate. She is the initiator and convenor of Undead Matter, a commissioning, broadcasting, publishing, and research programme focused on the intimacies of dying and its dialogue with the geological. From 2013-2021, she was Exhibitions Curator at Camden Art Centre, and was previously part of the inaugural team at Raven Row (2009–13). Her writing appears in ArtMonthly, frieze, Elephant, October, and numerous exhibition publications and journals. She is currently undertaking her PhD at Goldsmiths, titled Being-with-Dying: Living with Agency in the Anthropocene.
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