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Artifacts of Grief

Society EN ↓ 4 episodes

Grief is a fundamental part of being human. Not an easy one, but an inevitable one. Artifacts of Grief is an intentional space of grief sharing. The objects around us are imbued with grief stories. They are tangible vessels of grief. Each episode begins with an object—an artifact of grief—that serves as a conduit to the grief story being shared. By bringing the artifact into the physical space, grief becomes visible, something that can be felt, observed, held, both corporeally and emotionally. In sharing individual griefs, we honour both the singularity and shared threads of grief. We welcome...

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The Nostalgic Routine of the Video Store 09.07.2026 1:01:41

Elliott Kuss (he/him)—art director and creative—shares the story of his love of video stores and his deep sadness over the death of them. Through his grief story, Elliott offers space to consider the ways nostalgia, understood as grief, creates space to bring the present and past into conversation, in order to provide the opportunity to intentionally consider how to not just mourn the past, but ho...

Travelling Through Grief’s Contradictions 09.07.2026 1:01:13

Carolyn Reny (she/her)—a curious person, by nature—shares her experiences with travel. She brings an object that represents the movement through space that has resulted in both loss and change in her life, many times over. Through her grief story, Carolyn offers a space to think about holding contradictory emotions together so that we might welcome the way our experiences unmake and remake us. Art...

Every Day Sites of Mourning 09.07.2026 51:37

Ashley Meyer—artist and art educator—shares the story of her grandfather: Herman Kinzner (1931-2014). She brings an object that once belonged to him and now is part of her home. Through her grief story, Ashley offers a space to think about the way objects can provide an ongoing relationship with our lost loved ones, as well as an opportunity to think about differing rituals of remembrance that exi...

Artifacts of Grief Trailer 27.06.2026 0:30

Every Thursday, an artifact serves as a conduit for a grief story. Kylie Burton and Elliott Kuss host Artifacts of Grief, an intentional space of grief sharing that welcomes the messy, complex, ongoing process of grief. In sharing stories of the griefs we all live with, Artifacts of Grief challenges the individualization of grief; instead, the show seeks to understand grief as an experience that r...