
Photo by Lennart Kreutzburg
'SO DEEP MY LOVE' AT CLUB GRIEF
Tubelight Magazine, 19.05.2025
Dear Society, is a grieving circle initiated by Dutch curator Julia Fidder as an invitation to gather around experiences of loss, mourning, and love. Since 2024, Dear Society, has hosted public events in cinemas, galleries, and theatres, exploring the possibilities of rekindling rituals and collective mourning through contemporary art. Dear Society, has held space to formulate shared practices, affects and vocabularies for experiences of personal and societal loss, and resisting over-productivity, hyper-consumption, and isolation. Club Grief is a club night for grievers and friends, hosted for the first time in Helsinki on 22 February 2025 at Madhouse, an artist-run performance and production space for live art. The lineup featured performances by Death by Landscape (Victor Gogly and Joni Judén) and M LORE, and a participatory installation by Leik Silvestrini. This is a reflection on the pervasive passion – the other side of grief – that soaked Club Grief’s dancefloor, and the melancholic anger that, once made collective, can mobilise mutual recognition, acceptance, and possibly regeneration.