“If you tuck the story of a loved one
under your tongue for too long
it becomes dried blood;
bated breath;
sigh.”

On Tuesday, 29 October, join us for the workshop “echoes from the aether” with Gervaise Alexis Savvias. We gather to commune and entangle our threads with the grand ensemble; to honour the ghosts that linger and propel us forward. By way of knowledge exchange, fragmented poetics, and a series of proposed writing activities, this workshop is offered as a moment to gather echoes from the æther; ponder on how we might commune with those no longer with us, while equally recognising that the archive is a rehearsal for living, a blueprint for futures not (yet) attained.

Participants are encouraged to bring an object that has haunted them for some time, if only because they are unsure why it continues to haunt them. This can be in the form of a photograph, archival object, ephemera, memorabilia, a text—the possibilities, much like haunting, are endless.

Gervaise Alexis Savvias is a writer and artist-researcher currently based in Amsterdam. Their practice is predicated on an entanglement of poetic narratives, a scavenger methodology, and archival speculation—which altogether coalesces into an adamant refusal of the graveyard of memory.