Performance, 2025 - Budapest at the School of Disobedience | Photo © Nagy Lili Panna

‘grief is a 5 letter word with no end’ is an invitation to examine the burden of memory and what keeps us bound to this world. It explores the weight in what we carry & what we inherit to embrace the melancholy of nostalgia & the tenderness of making choice. At it’s core, ‘grief is a 5 letter word with no end’ is a practice of reclaiming autonomy from the things that we did not choose.

Stones, strings, and fragments of image in film and video form a fragile architecture to explore the delicate balance of rupture & repair, past & future, cutting & tying.

dria developed & performed ‘grief is a 5 letter word with no end’ that includes original music composition, field recordings from the city of Budapest, a video projection using creative common footage from Life on Super 8.