In Remembrance
14 May, 2024 - ongoing
In Remembrance is a participatory artwork that operates in the space of the domestic everyday; it positions the home and its associated everyday actions as a potential site for mourning’s arrival. A lighting taper, beeswax candle*, and brass candle holder are gifted to 100 subscribers, with an invitation to join unknown others in a collective mourning rite through which expressions of presence, absence, and ritual are explored, aiming to complicate notions of emptiness often associated with death by those who live on.You are invited to light a candle sent especially to you for a loved one, knowing that 100 others have subscribed and received the same. Collectively, we will light these candles in an extended temporal duration performance, repeated annually in unknown spaces, at unknown times. By participating, you join a collective and relational performance of mourning, with candles burning in ephemeral action. The ubiquitous, resonant gesture of lighting a candle reminds us that we are simply the latest in an unbroken chain of humanity. We are thus brought into radical proximity with an unknown community of others. The gesture becomes a collective remembrance through affirmative mourning rite.* A replacement candle is sent annually for the lifetime of the artwork.
Subscription Information
To receive one of 100 In Remembrance packages, please email your name, postal address, the full name and date of a significant bereavement(dd/mm/yyyy) to inremembrance2024@gmail.com