grief movement

goathead studios (breana connor + Matthan Cowart) and collaborators Jordan Alvarenga, Sarah Hogland-Gurulé and Caroline Netschert offer movement, meditation, ritual, and physical objects as a template for being with and attending to grief. 

This work exists in four parts: movement practice conveyed through collaborative video, sculpture installation, guided meditation and altar.  Throughout the duration of the exhibition, all are invited to leave letters, images, or other temporary offerings to their grief.

Grief Movement is a meditation on creating interdependence through healing ritual, shared grief, carework and artmaking:

After death, loss and ongoing change, how do we reconnect?

How do we process what we have lost?

/

mourning

turn to ash

place in the river

forget

remember

n forget again

Collaborators

  • Sarah Hogland-Gurulé

    Sarah Hogland-Gurulé is a Xicana dancer, educator, choreographer and dreamer guided by the belief that dance is a form of embodied healing, ancestral remembrance and collective visioning. She currently performs with Dancing Earth and is exploring liberatory movement through freestyle, pole dance, popping, house & contemporary dance.

  • Jordan Alvarenga

    Jordan Alvarenga was born in Germany in 1993 and raised in New Mexico, Jordan uses their Curiosity about variety as a catalyst for their art. Jordan’s paintings, drawings, and jewelry are an extension of how they communicate with people. Non objective abstract design in their work allows people to insert themselves into the pieces. Each person brings a unique perspective to the chaotic and undefined. One technique that satisfies their creative nerve is using Acrylic paint on top of temporary mediums as a physical and metaphorical mask. Jordan is constantly exploring various mediums such as video editing, graphic design, music making and ceramics.

  • Caroline Netschert

    Caroline Netschert is a Buddhist minister, and a professionally trained, intercultural care provider. She works as a hospital chaplain and is a graduate student studying to be a mental health counselor. She aims to center community care, equity, and advocacy, and feels passionate about de-stigmatizing grief.