Our project looks to the performance of religious, spiritual, and cultural grief rituals as an entry point for analysis of spaces used to care for the dead and the bereaved. In deconstructing institutionalized spaces of grief, our interest lies in the material trace or artifact towards transforming cultural grief programs to meet the everydayness of grief—the grief not always associated with death—and more specifically, the grief around the very material substance of inequality at the focus of the BLM movement.
