Portret van Susanne Duijvestein - door Elisabeth Lanz
Susanne Duijvestein (1986) is trained as an organizational expert and after eleven years of cooperative banking and other positions at Slow Food and the Amsterdam Economic Board made a switch to the profession of funeral director. She guides families through designing the funeral of the recently deceased. Not only does she deal with death on a daily basis (which changes her perspective on life), but she also works with an originally conservative industry that is in transition.
Since the spring of 2019, Susanne is chief curator of death at Mediamatic.
As a young, progressive self-employed person, she mirrors the funeral world on ethics and aesthetics, but she also likes to mirror ourselves as ordinary mortals on how we relate to our own transience, what we leave behind on this planet and how we can make funerals our own.
Subjects that fascinate her are the taboo on death, alternative forms of funeral services, environmentally conscious use of materials, rituals, life stories and old traditions.
Preparing a dead body for a funeral often takes place behind closed doors, outsourced to deathcare professionals. If it’s up to Susanne Duijvestein, funeral director and Nature Morte curator, we...
All forms of life are given a place at Mediamatic. Death is inherently linked with the cycle of life. Just as nature provides room for death, so do we. We offer the opportunity to bid your deceased...
Death is one last action - a body left to account for. Some of us have already given it a thought, but how hard have we thought about our upcoming deaths, really? Mediamatic´s Still Life: death
Ever thought about what you'll wear when you're dead? In the past it was customary in our country to make your own death shroud and keep it in your linen closet because you never know. Although this...
What happens to our bodies after death? When choosing Resomation as a burial method, the answer is just as fascinating as it might give you the shivers. With resomation, the human body is dissolved...
Maybe you have heard about the Muskrat, an ‘invasive exotic’ that likes to chomp on 'our' Dutch dykes. It was on the 22nd of May that one found their final resting place in one of the grow beds at...
A poster for the performance Nokanshi Dream. Where Susanne Duijvestein will learn you more about the japanese ritual to wash the dead.
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