DITCH COAL NOW London – February 2019

a performative memorial foregrounding extractive damage

This performative action took place outside the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in Whitehall, co-created with Isobel Tarr and Scarlet X.

The event involved the ceremonial placement of handmade clay figures on the pavement, each representing one hundred deaths caused annually by coal-dust-related illness in the UK. Through silence and slow, attentive gestures, the performance formed a temporary public memorial. The work brought public attention to the human cost of extractive energy practices and created space for collective witnessing and concern.