Sonic Death Cafés

As part of the residency Sonic Explorations of Collective Grief at OBORO with her collaborator, Pipo Pierre-Louis, artist Salima Punjani invites you to an exploration of grief through sound and vibrations. For this gathering, you will be invited to a ritual of collective care in which you consider things that are feeling difficult in your life and find sounds and vibrations that symbolize these feelings. We will then collectively listen to each other’s stories and symbols through vibrotactile pillows - technology that amplifies sound into vibrations. The idea is to expand our stories and experiences beyond talking, and into feeling, using our bodies and senses to listen to each other.

The cafes aren’t specifically focused on death but create space for difficult human experiences like eco-anxiety, friendship and other intimate break-ups, aging, changes in physical and mental capacity and much more. Cake and tea provided. The workshop will be bilingual.…