Mourning Sites

Spatial designer Emily O’Hara has an interdisciplinary practice fluctuating between performance-with-installation, object making, photography and moving image.

Her PhD titled Mourning Sites ________ ; Performing Ineffable Spaces of Ruin extended on her explorations of spatio-temporal conditions that arise in processes of mourning, relating experiences of death and mourning to language and its other; silence or ineffability.

O’Hara has a keen focus on temporality and extended duration and makes work that relates to the everyday, particularly to the rhythms and repetitions of life and death. She is interested in ideas of the feminine, the maternal and how regular everyday registers (such as the moon, bodies of water, rocks, salt, fog and fire) can offer a space through which to think about intergenerational and inter-spatial connection.