Containers for Grief is a sonic performance-lecture commissioned by School, Vienna. It explores Zara’s working methodology of “rapture”, and the ways it takes seriously a funerary logic around our responsibilities of grief and interment, and by extension considers the possibilities of both repair and revolt in relation to the politics of death and dying in settler (post)colonies, and their respective sound archives in both the popular sphere, and those stored in ethnographic museum contexts. The performance engages the ‘sound object’ and indeed the archive on its own terms, and addresses the narratives, embodied experiences and land-based / oceanic networks of loss and life / death and living related to the colonial extraction and dispossession in the Majority World.

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