Exploring grief, communitarian care, and imaging what we might palliate.

Led by Toronto/Tkaranto-based artist and community activist Mikiki. Mikiki will explore models of communitarian grief work and the forms of the “holographic will” and “Pepper’s ghost” to image what we might palliate. The workshop exercise will focus on somatics, parasympathetic nervous system reset, and self-soothing strategies.

The session explores communitarian grief work and care as maintenance, relating to Mikiki’s practice of death cleaning as part of life. Frameworks include the Swedish death cleaning process. The workshop will use the “holograph will/death box” concept to explore imaging what we might palliate. The final workshop, March 27-29, will be the closing event of the BFMAF Festival , which will include a culmination screening