A Giant, Two Serpent’s and The Girls: Going to Ground with Grief in a Time

A Giant, Two Serpent’s and The Girls proposes a radical reworking of how we can process grief in collaboration with our landscapes.  Situated in South-east London and within a possible climate future of the Gulf Stream collapsing, the project draws on the ancient dialogue between mythmaking and landscape to explore how grief both personal and collective can be liberated from the static dimensionality of cemeteries, and re-spatialised into the public realm. To activate the project, A Giant, Two Serpent’s and The Girls uses stories and storytelling as a collective practice to develop emotional, social and spatial responses to the ecological crisis we are facing.  These responses are drawn from the subtle physicality of the site, the water, the undulating topography, the bedrock, the atmosphere and the distribution of human and non-human beings, and provide spaces and moments where the community can come together to act out their grief within the landscape, allowing this intimate practice to shape their surroundings.

>>> This year we have been investigating how landscapes can be redefined through collective practices, this has been framed in multiple ways.  We have been engaging with human and more-than-human beings, with materials, policy and environments to speculate on how collective, situated and radical landscape practices can bring about change.