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SM's - Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
Op scherven na dood & Unexpected
8Mar 2009- Congres en tentoonstelling over keramiek1Jun 2009'The Unexpected - van Picasso tot Penck, van Appel tot Koons' is een surprise show met keramiek van veelal beroemde kunstenaars. De tentoonstelling bevat meer dan 150 werken van 40 kunstenaars uit de...
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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 Mexican native living in the Netherlands, Lucyeileen was struck...
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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 LCD embedded gravestone, through the looking glass of media...
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workshop: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS
Digital Stowaway Workshop
13Mar 2009- With Etoy for the Mission Eternity project13Mar 2009Following the Etoy lecture on Thursday night, participants of the Digital Stowaway workshop got together with Agent Zai on Friday morning. The aim was to work on compiling a mini-Arcanum Capsule for...
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Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS Isabella Cota
Mission Eternity lecture by Etoy
12Mar 2009- Crossing the Dead-line12Mar 2009Death. Memory. Data. Loss. Body. Information. Remains. Technology. Pilot. Angels. In an attempt to deal with human remains as information in cyberspace, the digital art group and corporation Etoy...
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VillaNuts
Deadline
13Feb 2009- Groepstentoonstelling Fotografencollectief Onze/1112Mar 2009Vrijdag 13 februari vindt bij VillaNuts op het Westeinde 60A in Den Haag de opening plaats van de expositie ‘Deadline’. Deze expositie bestaat uit werk van het Amsterdams’ fotografencollectief Onze...
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Nadine Jarvis: Challenging Post Mortem Traditions
Designer Nadine Jarvis has produced some very thought provoking art work using cremated remains. But before you say, "Oh, I've seen those paintings and glass sculptures with the ashes mixed in"...
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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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Together Forever
When I was an apprentice, the directors told me a story that has shaped the way I view funerals and family requests to this day. Sometimes it happens that two people who are very close die at nearly...
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Ashes to Ashes
Part 1
For many, the idea of returning our bodies to the earth is a sacred and appealing concept. Those of us with a special bond to a particular patch of earth have found ways of making this return even...
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Participation is Powerful
Participation is powerful. Often, children lack an opportunity to truly participate in the funeral services for their loved ones. When I was 8 and my brother 9, our father died after a few months of...
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Gypsy Graves
Gypsy graves have a life of their own in Portland, Oregon
In Portland Oregon's beautiful Rose City Cemetery, there is a section of Gypsy graves. The monuments on these graves are interesting enough during most of the year because of the photographs of men...
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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 over produce at a sidewalk vegetable stand. As the band turns the...
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The Cremains of the Day
A look at Words in Funeral Service
Euphemisms abound in funeral service. As Hugh Rawson explains in one of my most favorite books, Euphemisms & Other Double Talk (Crown Publishers NY, 1981), words that are used to describe unpleasant...
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Patrick McNally
The Daily Undertaker
I'm a funeral director and the writer of the blog www.dailyundertaker.com
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Van Moskou tot Magadan
Met Jelle Brandt Corstius door Rusland
Wie zijn de Russen zijn en wat drijft ze? Journalist en schrijver Jelle Brandt Corstius maakt een ontdekkigstocht door het hele land op zoek naar een antwoord. Een docuserie van 7 afleveringen, v/a...
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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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...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 be applied with stitches, as a final farewell and in memory of...
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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 members bring along an archive of images 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 doesn't work in the format of the workshop, but takes the assignment...
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Zedz workshop
Coffin for your beloved
Together with the relatives Zedz designs a coffin that expresses the individuality of the loved one.
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workshop: Tanja Baudoin, Michel Langendijk
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 self-representation Mediamatic organized workshops for surviving...
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Oude Kerk
Lucifer or the attraction of Evil
23Jan 2009- Rietveld Academie eindexamenstudenten expositie 20098Feb 2009Ieder jaar organiseert de Autonome richting een expositie van de aankomende afstudeerstudenten in de Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.
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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 black background, using the techniques of making formal portraits...