Act One: Inheritance in Motion: Film Screening & Live Drawing
This part begins with the screening of I Was There (Kamila Kuc, Poland/UK, 2025, 13 mins), with sound by Ecka Mordecai. I Was There is a palimpsest of inherited trauma, autobiography, and reverberating histories. During the screening, artist Kate Walters will make live drawings directly into the book If Loss Were a Currency – a companion to the film, thus reanimating memory as it unfolds. The books with drawings will be hung on the gallery walls post-screening – their fragile pages of witness, free to be taken by attendees. The limited editions of the book copies with Kate’s drawings will be available for purchase at the event.
Act Two: Pages That Tremble: Live Book Readings
Ecka Mordecai, Laima Leyton, Dara Waldron, Jeremy Fernando and Kamila Kuc will read excerpts from If Loss Were a Currency, accompanied by a live sound score by Ecka. This moment activates the book as a testimonial object – its pages vibrating with embodied memory, ancestral echo, and the stammer of the unspeakable, as Kate continues to draw on the book’s pages. This section brings presence to the intimacy of articulation and the spaces around it.
Act 3: Ripples & Echoes: Collective Conversation
The evening culminates in a spontaneous conversation between the artists and the public. Drawing on ideas of active imagination, audience offerings (words, gestures, or images), and the improvisational spirit of the work, this act invites a collective inquiry. How do we hold space for what cannot be fully said? What does it mean to be both witness and recipient? How might silence and vulnerability shape the architecture of resistance.
