A FUNERAL FOR. . .
158 page book (2025)
edition of 150
A Funeral For… is a hand-bound art book created in collaboration with Zoé Samudzi. It operates at the critical nexus of archival intervention, sonic inquiry, and speculative memory work, proposing a new form of engagement with the spectral remains of empire.
The book is a materially and conceptually layered object; part visual archive, part philosophical inquiry, part intimate dialogue. Featuring a large collection of rarely engaged material drawn from the ethnomusicological, photographic, ethnographic, mineral resource, and human-cast collections of the Wereldmuseum / Dutch Museum of World Cultures, the book functions as a fragmented assemblage of process, memory, and associative and intersubjective questioning. Readers are invited to move slowly through a series of visual and textual shards that refuse linearity and closure.
A Funeral For... is structured as a series of propositions with additional contributions by architect Meghan Ho-Tong, and community archivist Daiyaan Petersén, as well as an extended conversation between Julius and Samudzi. The book explores the entanglements of death-in-life, land, and the necrographies of both imperial violence and indigenous memory through the respective practices of each contributor. These exchanges unfold in dialogue with archival images, drawing the reader into a relational practice of witnessing that calls for an attunement to the affective, the spiritual, the sonic, the ecological, the ancestral and the capacious ontological possibilities offered by each register.
A Funeral For... insists on an active reader: one who is willing to piece together these fragments, sit with the schisms produced by the ruptures of lifeworlds, and tend to the resonant frequencies that emerge therefrom.
