I came to the crowd to weep (2024) is an improvisational reflection on grieving by Rebecca Lillich/Krüger filmed by Jesse Immanuel Bom; broadening from the singular to multiple, the open symbols utilised in the performance offer the experience of grieving through a gesture series and integrated costume. 

Based off Lillich/Krüger’s character research from Kusje (2020) and de Val (2023) for fictional narratives, and restaged as a happening for Ahmad Mallah’s opening of PROTEST at No Limits! Art Castle/Sexyland, the work has manifested by coming to a new crowd, the public space of social media. While the original live roots of the work echoed the bodies of the audience around the performer, this film work attempts to create a shared space for grief amid an ocean of words. The body can grieve without explanation as a reaction to the horrors of an ongoing genocide.  The solo utilizes a simple surrealist symbol, the red thread, to create a pathway, creating images and visceral feelings of collective trauma. 

I cry for you, I cry with you, I cry, cry cry as we all try, try, try.

Comissioned by Through the Window for Through the Window sees Fire; supported by the Prins Claus Fund.