The Mourning After

The Mourning After invites people to explore grief in all its multiple forms — as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices. 

The exhibition offers space for reflection, connection, and conversation, with a program of workshops that explore how creative methods can help us understand grief better. These workshops explore everything from personal experiences of loss to collective grief. 

As we navigate a world in flux, reshaped by our relationship to technology and its impact on the environment, we engage with different types of grief — anticipatory, connective, ritualistic and, for some, grief as a life-long companion. Grief can be a way of meaning-making, a practice through which we navigate absence and reimagine what comes next. We invite the audience to consider ethical and creative responses to both tangible and intangible losses lived within our communities, and how these responses might help us connect to more hopeful, collective futures. 

Including works by Lauren Berkowitz, Centre for Reworlding (Noongar Claire G. Coleman and Metis Jen Rae in collaboration with High Volume), Maree Clarke (Mutti Mutti/ Yorta Yorta and Boon Wurrung/ Wemba Wemba), Megan Cope (Quandamooka), Vicki Couzens (Keerray Woorroong Gunditjmara), Heather Hesterman, Shahee Ilyas, Machine Listening (Sean Dockray, James Parker, Joel Stern), Paula Mahoney, Annie Frost Nicholson, The Death Letter Project (Tina FiveAsh), and Lara Thoms (APHIDS).

Curated by Larissa Hjorth.

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Paula Mahoney, Jump on through (to the other side), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist. Paula Mahoney, Jump on through (to the other side), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

Opening Hours

11am - 5pm Tuesday to Friday

12 - 4pm Saturday

Info for schools and groups of more than 10

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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