Much remains Untold when it comes to grief, and much feels unheard as we walk and connect to everything by our side.
When the online magazine Untold invited me to create a dossier on the program Walking with Grief of our “year of listening”, I felt the joy and the potential of our cultural practices crossing, and our web of walkers expanding to their web of readers confirming our sense of entanglement and solidarity.
For the dossier, I revisited the recordings we have commissioned for Walking with Grief in September 2022. Then I invited four of the artists to re-work their recordings into written texts and I invited the artist Giath Taha to write a new text, while I wrote one myself.
Through these six texts and my introduction, this dossier invites us to linger a moment with the loss we feel, with our personal and/or collective grief, the grief in our bodies, our political and climate grief. It invites us to walk with it and with the way the artists approach it, live it and work with it.
Walking is part of the practice of these artists, a form through which they reflect on their position and relationships to the worlds they dwell in and walk through and walk with.
The collaboration with Untold Magazine helps us continue our reflection on the ways a cultural platform could work and produce in times of uncertainty and crisis.
Untold Magazine is a bilingual online magazine run by a transnational editorial team and hosting critical debates about local, regional, and global issues that characterize our interconnected world. Their ambition, like that of Dancing on the Edge, is to decentralize the production of knowledge and to promote multi-centered and Global South-based perspectives to challenge the hegemony of a unilateral knowledge production stemming from the Global North.
Dancing on the Edge believes that staying with grief is a form of resistance, a way to insist on attending to the brokenness of this world, of our bodies, souls and minds, and a way to imagine alternative futures and have fair generative cultural practices.
We invite you to read the introduction to the dossier to have an insight on the content of the articles, and to enjoy each one of the six diverse voices and experiences of grief.
Image by Eye Wrote.
