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, USANight 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