Tending Grief in the Wake

This seminar series brings together artists, scholars, researchers and organizers from South Africa, Mexico, U.S., Iran, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Botswana, Peru and Sweden, to share the interdisciplinary, aesthetic and transcultural nature of Black Study. 

Camille Barton
 

Communal forms of grief and the importance of grief tending in community to reduce isolation, build trust and get clear on what we care about so we can move towards this together. I'll touch on how this connects to Black Feminist Study (such as Christina Sharpe's work "In the Wake") and this time of modernity being hospiced.

Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, artist and embodied ethics practitioner, dedicated to creating networks of care and liveable futures. Rooted in Black feminism, ecology and harm reduction, Camille uses creativity, alongside embodied practices, to create culture change in fields ranging from psychedelic assisted therapy to arts education. Their debut book "Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community", will be published in April 2024 by North Atlantic Books.

Based in Amsterdam, Camille designed and directed Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023), a masters programme exploring socially engaged art making with a focus on creating change through the body into the world. They curate events and offer consultancy combining trauma informed practice, experiential learning and their studies in political science.

Seminar Resources:

Sobonfu Somé: Grieving and Ritual (SoundCloud)

Camille Barton website 

@camillesaparabarton