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MORTEM MORTEM Mortem is a 10-day online death and mourning school for artists to pursue our curiosity of mortality and to develop our identities as death-curious artists. 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 as well as 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, book and practice recommendations and show and tell. 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 Art: Beautiful Death: The Art and Mystery of Mortality with the director of Morbid Anatomy, Johanna Ebinstein Wild Death and Feral Women with Prof. of Death and Photography Ashley Czajkowski of the University of Arizona Sensing the Supernatural: Relic Veneration with Dr. Jamie Brummit from the University of North Carolina Death and Mourning Ritual in Contemporary Art with the director of the Biophilium Death Care & Body Disposition: Standard burial and cremation processes: a talk with a funeral director 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
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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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