LIMBS

by Unidentified Body Parts Collective

In honor of the countless bodies we have witnessed in pieces in the last years, LIMBS are cyclical community art making events and gatherings, travelling to different sites and communities to bridge experiences of grief, joy and collective power.
By making clay limbs together and firing them in the earth in Ceremony we co-create our rituals of regeneration.

The limbs are then exhibited and sold to raise funds towards Ghassan Abu Sitta Foundation for children’s reconstructive limb.

2024-present

Excerpt from video of firing ceremony filmed and edited by Dima Mabsout, Laguna Creek Beach, Santa Cruz, CA

How can we reclaim the horror of dismembered bodies into a source of togetherness and healing?
What is the role of social practice and the collective imagination in moments where political violence and oppression want to render us powerless?
How does the environment surrounding a ceremony/collective action contribute to its regenerative imagination?

Limbs Making during the Bread & Puppet Theatre circus, Vermont, USA

Night firing with the volunteers and theater troup of Bread & Puppet, Vermont, USA

Limb excavation after Bread and Puppet’s “Oh you best descendants” theater show, Vermont, August 2025

“More than an exhibition, Limbs frames artistic practice not simply as cultural production,
but as a site of knowledge-making, collective inquiry, and social and material repair.”
Michael Flora, Executive and Artistic Director at Indexical

A selection of limbs were mounted in plaster in wooden frames for the exhibition at INDEXICAL Santa Cruz

Audience in moment of stillness before performance on the opening at Indexical. The exhibition included a 3 part programming