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Mortem Online Death School is a two-week program for artists to pursue their curiosity of death and to explore and develop their identity as a death-curious artist. The virtual residency will involve daily live video lectures with international death care and funeral industry workers, historians, biologists and artists on a range of death related topics, one tethered international field trip in a graveyard near you and several short one on one meetings with artists who make art about death around the world. Built in to the 2- 2.5 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. Ayatana death residencies facilitate talk about death. It is not grief therapy and won't ask you to dwell on pain from your past, although it will be an opportunity to share past experiences in a death positive context and most likely will be therapeutic. It will help you identify as an artist who works with themes of death and give you tools to talk about your work and to get involved with non-art professionals who also work with death. Ayatana residencies focus on experience and research by visual and conceptual artists. Artists, writers, poets, musicians and dancers are invited to apply. This residency will host six or seven selected international artists. No previous experience related to death is necessary but a portfolio showing your creative practice is required to apply. Outline
All activities are subject to change depending on ecological conditions, expert availability and other uncontrollable variables. Outings will go ahead rain or shine. Death in the hands of the artist: Kirlian photography and life left in the body. Body disposition options: History of Embalming chat with an eco-casket builder History of international death rituals with the director of the Museum of Morbid Anatomy
Palliative care and vigiling: Chat with a death doula. Biology: Non-human mourning rituals with author Barbara J King
Haunting: History of haunting and commuicating with the dead
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How to apply:
Send the following material to ArtLovesScience@gmail.com
1. Artist CV
2. Artist statement (about 200 words)
3. Ayatana form
4. Portfolio 5 – 10 examples of your work
Only applications that follow these guidelines will be considered. Friend us on face book for future calls for applications and posts about other art/science opportunities
Check out past Death residencies on Fb
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