Sink, Rest, Rot is a 45-min guided meditation shaped through live poetic performance, supported by an ambient musical soundscape. Participants are invited to lie down in the art installation Microkosmos (2026), to embody, experience, rethink, and participate in the rot that the world around us experiences. Rooted in queer, crip, and ecological thought, artists Moss Berke and Venus Jasper offer a gentle place to grieve collectively, to rest, to make meaning, to share, and to compost, by sinking, deeper, and then a little more.

In this gathering, grief is not a passageway towards “overcoming” loss. It is not something to fix or “heal” as is often the case in traditional Western frameworks. Rather, it is a short moment to experience grief and rest together in communion. In short, Sink, Rest, Rot is a meditative poetic exploration that asks participants to remain in grief, to understand grief as dispersed connective tissue that illuminates other possibilities for relating to a world in crisis.

Moss Berke, US/IT (ambivalent) is a writer, researcher, and multidisciplinary artist whose work brings together eco-poetics, land art, natural sciences, environmental humanities and queer theory. Together, they explore the generative and disruptive potentiality of ecological grief in times of environmental crises. Moss’ practice blends landart, poetics, performance, critical theory and activism, informed by her experience as a queer and disabled artist-thinker.

Venus Jasper, NL (they/he) is a queer visual artist, singer-performer, educator, writer, and curator based in Amsterdam. In their counter-cultural and ritualistic work they envision spirited and sensuous post-capitalisms that spell the decolonization of the Anthropocene, rekindle more-than-human kinship, and forward (neuro)-queer perspectives on ecology, folklore, contemporary culture, spirituality, and the self.

Venus and Moss met in the summer of 2025 and have been in dialogue around notions of grief, rest, disability, trauma, and queer friendship.