graduation project MA Contextual Design, 2022 Cum Laude
performance
10-12min
[ Because of the nature of the performance,
photographic documentation is limited as
this was meant to be experienced in that
fleeting moment, and documentation would
have been intrusive.
The moment remains within the memory of the
audience and in the memory of the clay,
which was then dried, recycled and reused. ]
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A ritual that enables the externalisation of grief by using clay to give it a physical space that can undergo a reparative process.
Voluminous grief is alive. How to live with it when being affected and vulnerable is considered a weakness? When pain is considered something to be kept private? Refusing social conventions that prescribe discrete grieving, Camila Capra experienced and interprets grief as neither encapsulated in a moment in time, nor placed in the past. The autoethnographic project explores the intimate and often unpredictable space of grieving, between memory and loss, through the malleability of clay. The raw clay enables placing death and loss outside of the self, and spatializing and shaping emotions. Through the materiality and process of clay, grief is granted relational, generative and reparative qualities. - Nadine Botha