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UNDERTAKE THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF DEATH Mortem programs are 10-day online death and mourning school for artists to pursue their curiosity of mortality and to develop their identities as death-curious artists. This virtual residency involves daily live video lectures that focus on practical death care and contemporary mourning practices featuring lectures from death doulas, funeral directors, green death advocates, talks on necropolitics, donating your body to science, and community death care like home funerals and death cafes with international death care and funeral industry workers. The major theme of this course is taking death back from industry through DIY instructions on holding space for people to die peacefully and to grieve healthily. Mortem attracts very empathetic people; the course is designed to be gentle and we will support each other as we bravely contemplate death in real life. Undertake is a very specialized course for artists who feel inspired to support people while they face death or process grief in creative ways. The program will help artists consider how to hold space for grief and existential contemplation while learning about the practical side of death. 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 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. 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
Death and Mourning Ritual in Contemporary Art with the director of the Biophilium Standard burial and cremation processes: a talk with a funeral director Reclaiming our relationship with death: a chat with a death doula Green burial activism and human composting with the Green Burial Council Workshop on how to write a creative obituary with poet Miriam Segan Memorials for the More-Than-Human with artist and pet death care worker Alyssa Ellis The history of death rituals around the world Digital memorials with Talk Death Daily Participants are invited to give an artist talk to share your work with the group
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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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