Eco-Grief Clinic with MEG  (Ministry for Environmental Grief)
Facilitated by artistic death doulas Julia Adzuki and Marianne Skjeldal, audience members are invited to attend private sessions at the Eco-Grief Clinic.

MEG picks up the thread of what has traditionally been women’s work; keening and making crying songs at life’s transitions; deaths and marriages and times of loss and change. We reweave these rituals into liturgies for our times of unprecedented ecological crisis, when collective grief is so vast it can barely be spoken. We spin our artistry together to move this stagnant energy, singing what cannot be spoken, listening to place and plant spirits to support the well-being of all beings.

Guided through a process of divination with MEG’s lament cards and vibrant objects, we make ecological laments based in the revived Karelian lament tradition in Finland, interwoven with somatic practices and spiritual ecology. Our sessions invite the more-than–human into our sphere of kin, healing wounds of separation through grief work and celebrations of love. In a rich weave of song, somatic poetry, ephemeral installation and wearable art, we create participatory performance rituals that embrace ecological grief and connection with place, that are pertinent to each participant.

The clinic works to air, give voice to and embody ecological grief, to liberate held and withheld sorrows, to invite a space for them to transform. In the heart, into actions, in the world. By leaning into grief together, we make a kind of medicine, portals into possibilities of relations in resonance.


Bios
Marianne Skjeldal (b. 1979) is a dancer, choreographer, and performance artist. Through collaborative and relational art works, Marianne is creating rituals for our time, examining place, forms of presence, listening, togetherness and ways of being intimately connected to each other and a more-than-human world in transformative situations with movement and sound.
Facilitating spaces where interconnections can emerge, as  ‘listening with’, Marianne is researching participatory performance practices as a choreographed being-with-others, cultivating a perception of ecological sense, in the interest of arriving at new ideas and ethics together with place, with plants, with others.
A yoga somatics teacher and massage therapist, Marianne holds an MA degree in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts with specialisation in Performative Practices.

www.marianneskjeldal.com
www.laternalaterna.org


Julia Adzuki (b. 1980) is an artist working with acoustic, tactile and poetic resonance; creating instruments, installations and participatory performances that awaken the senses. Born and raised in Australia, she moved to Sweden to sculpt ice. Her work is currently focused on environmental grief, on the connective practice and transformative power of lament.

Co-initiator of Ministry for Environmental Grief, Ljudtornet and ((center for resonance)), Julia has an ongoing collaboration with Patrick Dallard - SymbioLab; a mobile laboratory for relational art, ecology and listening. 
A teacher of the somatic movement practice Skinner Releasing Technique, Julia holds an MA in choreography (with specialisation in New Performing Practices) from Stockholm University of the Arts.

www.symbiolab.se
www.juliaadzuki.com
www.centerforresonance.substack.com