compost : compose

Rasha Tayeh invited participants to gather around a cup of tea, sharing preliminary work from her project titled “compost : compose”. This conversation sought meanings around how one can compost old structures, let go, tend to grief, and decompose old ways of thinking, doing and being, observe liminality, and find ways to compose new imaginaries for reparative futures and collective liberation in generous and generative ways. The gathering also drew on themes around relational power, dis/connection to land, biodiversity, and the parallels of settler-colonial projects occupying Palestine and Aboriginal Nations in the continent known as Australia.

Rasha Tayeh is a Palestinian artist, researcher, nutritionist, herbalist and founder of Beit e'Shai based in Naarm (Melbourne).
Beit e’Shai is a social enterprise, pop-up teahouse, apothecary and event space for knowledge shares, poetry nights and tea ceremonies.