KARST is excited to be hosting a free participatory reading group and conversation with Paloma Proudfoot and Jordan Baseman as part of Rame Projects’ “I Hadn’t Finished Talking To You Yet” programme. This series of events is designed to bring people together to explore the complexities of grief and bereavement.
The reading group and discussion will respond to the question “do the dead gossip?” as posed by Holly Pester in her essay ‘A Charm of Powerful Trouble’. With this as a starting point, the session will be an opportunity to explore different notions of sound and the dead, particularly how ‘conversations’ could unfold with the dead outside of the formalities of language.
Paloma Proudfoot will open the event, introducing her own work and how the ideas explored in the shared reading relate to her current practice. This will be followed by a discussion of Pester’s text, as well as excerpts from Anne Carson’s ‘The Gender of Sound’ and Francis McKee’s ‘Even the Dead Rise Up’. To conclude, recordings of ritual laments and music relating to these ideas will be shared. Participants are encouraged (but not obliged) to contribute to a corresponding playlist which will be shared ahead of the event.
Please get in touch with rameprojectscornwall@gmail.com to let the organisers know how they can support your participation in the event, or if there is any information that it would be helpful for them to know – for example, allergies, access requirements, etc.
