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A community of the dead
A conversation with Elizabeth Heyert
Mary Caparitia Bush is ready to go to the party. She is wearing a stunning black sequin dress with a pattern of white leaves. Lace ...
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The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert
The fotoseries The Travelers by Elizabeth Heyert consists of portraits taken after death in Harlem New York. Photographed against a ...
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Workshop Melanie Bonajo
Coffin for your beloved
For Melanie Bonajo designing the coffin is a communal process with much room for rituals and stories about the deceased.
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Die Dutch catalog
A project by Lucyeileen Hernandez
For her graduation project at the Hogeschool van de Kunsten in Utrecht in 2005, Lucyeileen Hernandez designed a funeral catalog. As a ...
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Ruchama Noorda workshop
Coffin for your beloved
Ruchama Noorda's workshop is a very personal approach to designing a coffin. She pays a lot of attention to the symbolism of the loved one.
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Miktor & Molf workshop
Coffin for your beloved
Together with the relatives Miktor & Molf work on a coffin that will be a homage to the deceased. As a starting point the family ...
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Workshop
Workshop Coffin for your Beloved
Work together with a contemporary artist
A coffin with poetic ribbons, graffiti or textile? A robe or something more conceptual? As part of the Ik RIP exhibition on death and ...
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Dead links
Despite what the title of this article suggests, these links do go somewhere!
Here you find a collection of links to websites that somehow are related to the topic of death. Leave a comment if you have other good ...
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spectres?
Mediated mourning rituals and the cultural acceptance of death
The following is an excerpt from my MA thesis entitled 'Praise the media!' in which I look at examples of mourning rituals, namely the ...
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Edwin Oudshoorn workshop
Coffin for your beloved
Edwin Oudshoorn works on a coffin that is covered with multiple fabrics that each signify a memory of the loved one.
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Niels 'Shoe' Meulman
Coffin for your beloved
In his own calligraffiti-style, Niels 'Shoe' Meulman writes words on the coffin that describe the personality of the deceased. He ...
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Death of the Author, Survival of the Avatar
Can the dead still be involved in social networking?
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...and beyond workshop
The workshop of fashion designers ...and beyond is aimed at working together on a shroud for the deceased. On this shroud drawings will ...
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Mediamatic’s Ghanaian Teddy Bear coffin
A documentation of our coffin order at eShopAfrica.com!
For the Ik R.I.P. exhibition, Mediamatic decided to order a custom-crafted coffin in Ghana. Our graphic designer Anuschka Linse came up ...
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List of Death Films
Research for Death exhibition
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Funeral Rites in Chinatown
"The clear, melodic notes of a brass band marching along Chinatown's Stockton Avenue catch the attention of an Asian woman picking ...
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Darwin, NT, Darwin Visual Arts Association Inc.
Vestigial Loss
an exhibition of thoughts from a recent residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
5 Jun 2009 27 Jun 2009
In his publication On the Origin of Species (1859) Charles Darwin referred to the vestigial ...