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Taphophilia is the love of funerals, cemeteries and the rituals of death. Mortology is a 10-day online death school for artists to pursue their interests in mourning rituals. This virtual residency involves daily live video lectures that focus on international contemporary and historical death and mourning practices featuring lectures on ritual and materials used to process death and mourning through the ages with talks from academics presenting their research on the history of memento moris, relics, grave goods, death dancing, parades, cemetery symbolism, catacombs, celebrations and costume. Possible highlights on Victorian, Mexican and Greek tradcitions; topics will be tailored for participating artists. Built in to the 2- 2.5 hours of daily programming are discussions, recommendations and show and tell. The class is small enough for artists to interact with the speakers and connect with the other artists in the group. The program is designed to give insight into death knowledge and mourning ritual from a wide range of perspectives. Biophilium death residencies facilitate talk about death. It is designed to 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. Biophilium residencies focus on experience and research by visual and conceptual artists. Artists, writers, poets, musicians and dancers are invited to apply. No previous experience related to death is necessary but a portfolio showing your creative practice is required to apply. You can see the artists who will be participating as they confirm. here (scroll down to Mortem). You can see Mortem alumni here. Outline: Speakers will be adjusted to suit participating artists' interests
Beautiful Death: The history of the personification of death with Morbid Anatomy Sensing the Supernatural: Relic Veneration with 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 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 The history of death rituals around the world Participants are invited to give an artist talk to share your work with the group.
Cost: How to apply:
Send the following material to ArtLovesScience@gmail.com
1. Artist CV
2. Artist statement (about 200 words)
4. Portfolio 5 – 10 examples of your work
We are flexible and forgiving with application formats and deadlines.
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