The Mourning After Exhibition

About the Exhibition

The Mourning After invites people to explore grief in all its forms—as something felt, shared, and expressed through different rituals and creative practices. An expansive exhibition showcasing work by twelve contemporary practitioners, The Mourning After offers space for reflection, connection, and conversation, with a series of accompanying workshops that explore how creative methods can help us to better understand the grieving process. Workshops cover a range of topics, from the experience of personal loss to the sharing of collective grief, an increasingly common response to the uncertain times in which we live.

Throughout the exhibition, there are various forms and scales of grief and mourning—from ecological grief and the Digital Anthropocene, anticipatory grief, mourning as a collective/ connective ritual and grief as a lifelong companion. These works are invitations to reflect on different textures, scales and emotionalities of grief and mourning. Through the exhibiting artists’ works and workshops, The Mourning After offers a gentle invitation to reflect on grief and mourning as shared social and cultural experiences, and how these might help us imagine, and connect to, more hopeful futures.

The Mourning After is an RMIT Culture exhibition, curated by Larissa Hjorth and funded by the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships Scheme.

About the workshops

We are offering an extensive program of interactive workshops as part of the exhibition. The workshops are a space to reflect on grief. They are not therapy and participants are not expected to share anything personal unless they choose to. Anyone who has registered can take part as much or as little as they like. Listening, sitting quietly, or stepping away are all valid.

Click 'Register' to view and register for the workshops. Please note that all workshops are capped at 20 participants per event to enable personal connection and engagement. If you can no longer attend, please let the organisers know by emailing: mobilemediamourningpractices@gmail.com. Thank you.