This workshop aims to explore the disenfranchised grief brought on by the slow violence of capitalism: ecological catastrophe, resource and political instability. Relying on the “House of Modernity” framework from the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective, participants use embodied cognition and thinking-through-clay to express the promises that were made to them by modernity that can no longer be fulfilled as we awaken to the harms of the system. Participants then squish their embodied clay thoughts into a plaster press-mold of an urn - as the urn fills with grief and broken dreams, it is pressed together and comes out as a physical monument to grief. We understand that we are not alone, and we can let go of comforts and securities of modernity and face the future as adaptable, resilient beings. The urn itself dries, decomposes, and is reclaimed back into useable clay for further projects - just as we can compost the energy of rage and sadness into a galvanizing force to transform and build a new, more habitable society.

London Craft Week, DesignBar, 9th May 2025 (London, UK)

Ancestral Utopias, RCA Hangar Space, 29th April - 1st May 2025 (London, UK)