An artist-led offering and residency on grief, fragmentation, and the relational body

Prose Party was initiated as an informal, artist-led offering in 2025, conceived as a pedagogical experiment in collective writing and feminist care practice. Structured over six months, the program gathered seven women across geographies for biweekly online sessions dedicated to elegiac prose, grief-texts, and fragmentary narrative.

Emerging in the aftermath of personal rupture and a two-month period of self-imposed solitude, the project was rooted in a critical investigation of loss, attachment, and the architectures of emotional survival. Its ethos treated grief not as an event to be overcome, but as a site of inquiry, a material condition, and a relational terrain.

Each meeting functioned as a porous studio; a space for shared readings, experimental writing, oral reflections, and text-based witnessing. Participants were invited to bring prose fragments (c. 250 words), often incomplete or in-process, fostering a space where the unfinished was valorized as a pedagogical method in itself.

What began as a private give-back, a gesture of offering amidst my own artistic process, evolved into a transnational, peer-led ecosystem of care and co-authorship. A physical iteration of the project unfolded in the summer of 2025 through a in person gatherings at a local London pub, extending the dialogue beyond the screen and into embodied space.

Cohort I concluded in late 2025, dissolving with intention not as an ending, but as a mode of transmutation. Prose Party will return in slower, more public formats, seasonal or site-specific. Its methodology remains: word as medium, grief as ground, writing as a form of social sculpture.

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