I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN is an interdisciplinary performative project by the artist collective LiLi Re that seeks to give materiality and meaning to the human experience of loss.

Through the work, LiLi Re explores how loss is woven into everyday life—from abrupt and clearly defined ruptures to more subtle shifts we barely have time to acknowledge. Grief is also understood here in relation to the non-human: nature, places, and changing environments.

The project is a series of eco-mourning rituals, a performative installation that explores the boundaries of what we permit ourselves to grieve in contemporary society. The first performative action of the project took place in July 2024, with a site-specific walking performance and a living funeral for and at Engabreen, a part of Svartisen in Norway. 

Following the premiere at Svartisen, LiLi Re began expanding the work for diverse environments — not only glacial sites, but others landscapes, urban and natural, that may appear stable yet are continually shifting, carrying their own strata of loss and change. The project in its adapetation expand also in topic allowing to explore more in depth the state of grief in itself.

The performance combines an intimate voiceover, sound, textile installations, and physical and vocal expressions, all inspired by the ancient mourning practice of lamentation—a collective and embodied language for grief. Through the journey, the audience is invited into a temporary community to experience what may emerge when grief is given a public and shared form.


Venues:
Gamle Munch, Oslo (NO), 2025
Telegrafen / Kunstrom Jakob, Steinkjer Kulturhus (NO), 2026
Dikemarkfestivalen, Asker (NO), upcoming 2026
A! Performance festival, Akureyri, (IS), upcoming 2026


Artistic Team:
Concept and Dramaturgy: LiLi Re 
Text: Petra Casale, Silje Lindberg, Christine Ryndak
Performers: Petra Casale, Silje Lindberg, Christine Ryndak, Putli Jasmine Baldin Hellesen, Live Strugstad.
Visual elements and costumes: MIKO SOLO (Nikolai Lieblein Røsæg & Mio Oribe Stuberg Ueno)
Musician and composer: Stina Stjern
Producer: LiLi Re
Choir Gamle Munch, Oslo: Origo
Choir Steinkjer: Students in acting at Nord University