Memento Moris is an online death school for artists. This 10-day webinar supports artists as they pursue their curiosity about death rituals and explore and develop their identity as a death-curious artist. The virtual residency focuses on the anthropology of death and involves daily live video lectures with international historians presenting research about a range of death related topics, and several short one on one meetings with artists who make art about death around the world.
Built in to the 2 – 3 hours of daily programming are discussions, recommended assignments and show and tell. The program is designed to give insight into death knowledge and ritual from a wide range of perspectives.
Outline
- Beautiful Death: The history of the personification of death with the director of Morbid Anatomy, Johanna Ebinstein
- Encounters Between the Dead and the Living: Decoding grave stone imagery with Harvard University
- Sensing the Supernatural: Relic Veneration with Dr. Jamie Brummit from the University of North Carolina
- Grave goods and funerary vessels
- The histories of professional pagan mourning women and the benefit of ritual for mental health with the University of Milan
- Victorian mourning practices
- Parades and processions
- European Dance of Death Motifs with Renee Magana of the Death Agency
- Death and Mourning Ritual in Contemporary Art with the director of the Biophilium
- Standard burial and cremation processes: a talk with a funeral director
- Dancing Decay and Change Through Butoh with Blue Ceiling Studio
- The history of death rituals around the world
- Guided Radical Mortality Acceptance Meditation
Participants are invited to give an artist talk to share your work with the group.
Duration of residency
10 days
Accommodation
A comfy seat in front of your computer
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance
online
Fees and support
$600 USD fee
Expectations towards the artist
You will be invited to share your work in a 15 – 20 minute artists talk for the group.