[un]ambiguous project

It’s like a shadow. Always present on the periphery, never too far away. Lurking in the deep recesses of the mind, just below conscious thought.

Years can pass without a stir, just a lingering sense that something’s not quite right. Like a dull ache from an old injury that never quite healed.

You could be sitting on the couch, wandering down an isle at the supermarket, out for a drink with friends or eating breakfast, and it strikes.

Flooring you in an instant, it pulls you down fast, smothering your senses like crashing waves, one after another. You sink deeper and deeper into despair.

This onslaught seems unfounded, unfair and unjustified, yet a familiar occurrence when living with ambiguous grief – dealing with the loss of things in our lives that don’t have a ritual or process to anchor ourselves to.

Over the last year and through their most recent project [un]ambiguous, artists SHAR and briggsy have been exploring ambiguous grief and asking themselves the question ‘what is the language of loss?’

As a result of this, SHAR and briggsy have developed ‘The Missing’, a new interactive audio/visual performance exploring ambiguous grief, loss and missing things.

“You hold my heart with invisible hands…I have never stopped trying to find a doorway back to the beginning…those days you were missing, even before you were missing.”

Shirley May

The [un]ambiguous project a co-production between briggsy and SHAR, funded by Arts Council England and in partnership with Imitating the Dog and Contact Theatre.