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Chronicle One: Grief

1st Jan 2019

Suicide can be a very public death whilst simultaneously an intense private experience for those who grieve. In Chronicle One: Grief, three women reclaim this experience and give an audience public access to a private world.

Project Details
Creative Team
  • Artist: Mark Storor
  • Collaborator: Joanne Lynne
  • Collaborator: Angela Samata
  • Collaborator: Lisa Vint
  • Film: Chris Keenan
  • Photography: Stephen King
  • Music: Jules Maxwell
  • Partner: Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBS) St Helens

Suicide can be a very public death whilst simultaneously an intense private experience for those who grieve. In Chronicle One: Grief, three women reclaim this experience and give an audience public access to a private world. The piece takes the form of filmed and photographed actions performed by Joanne Lynne, Angela Samata, and Lisa Vint. Capturing a moment in the journey of bereavement, the women offer us an essence of their experience through self-determined action. Each action is particular and unique to the individual woman, but together form facets within a landscape of the collective experience of grief.

Created through a year-long collaboration, Chronicle One: Grief has been a process of coming together to discuss, to make sense, to collectively express the unsayable.

A woman dressed in a man's suit stands amongst broken crockery
Lisa during her performance. Wearing a black tutu she hangs from an aerial hoop.
A fair skinned woman with long blonde hair sits on the floor in a pile of dirt, she wears a pink silk slip. She has her back to us, with her legs out-stretched, her body is smeared black with dirt. She is surrounded by bottles of wine and wine glasses, many empty, some full.

3-channel digital colour video with sound, single-channel digital video with sound, digital photographic prints.

Part of The Suicide Chronicles, a collaborative artistic project led by Mark Storor working with communities impacted by suicide, aiming to collectively find a language to articulate and explore the complex, layered experience of suicide.

For more information about The Suicide Chronicles please contact emily@heartofglass.org.uk.

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