EASA 2010 - Death and imagination

Thanks to all presenters and participants for attending last week EASA2010 workshop "Death and imagination: creative strategies to embrace and avoid the crisis of death". We heard many interesting papers and it was a great success!

to see papers' abstracts > http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=590

photo by zunardu at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zunardu/3785439533/

"Departures" by Yôjirô Takita

Very interesting movie on the "encoffinment" practice in Japan; highly recommended to those interested in recent creative developments around celebrating the dead.

http://www.departures-themovie.com/

Last Portrait of Mother by Daphne Todd, 63, wins UK's leading portrait prize

Daughter's painting of dead mother wins BP Portrait prize and causes discussions

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/22/last-portrait-of-mother-portrait

The Noise of Mourning...

check this project if you can understand Italian and are interested in the topic of death and mourning http://www.ilrumoredellutto.com/

The Lady and the Reaper

A funny and interesting video on how medicine and technology influence our lives (and deaths)

Watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmOrWzblBPs

DEATH REFERENCE DESK

This website is definitely worth checking! http://deathreferencedesk.org/

Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo

"Memorial tattooing is, as Marita Sturken discusses the memorialization of the dead, a technology of memory. Yet the tattoo is more than just a representation of the dead. It is a historiographical practice in which the living person seeks to make death intelligible by permanently altering his or her own body. In this way, memorial tattooing not only establishes a new language of intelligibility between the living and the dead, it produces a historical text carried on the historian’s body. A memorial tattoo is an image but it is also (and most importantly) a narrative." from http://observatoryroom.org/2010/05/29/memorial-tattoo/