“When I die, I will be buried on the 28th floor”
Exile: Performative Conversation
Work display on 07.04.2019 at 15:00
Death attaches itself to the meaning of our existence. Yet we rarely talk about death.
In particular, not its challenges in urban communities on an overpopulated planet: how, for example, to make it sustainable when 90,000 tonnes of steel are buried in the US alone every year and the world must set aside another 6,500 sq ft for the dead by 2050 - that's more than five times the size of New York City. Death is currently an industry that consumes resources and space on a non-sustainable global scale. Therefore, we ask whether it is necessary to consider how the framework around death must look in the future? And how can it be done?
We explore how we can translate facts, interviews and conversations about death into a form of history that enables a dialogue about the historical, practical, emotional, and religious aspects of death. We question whether we all have a claim to our 2 sqm when we pass away, and fantasize about a future that might look different.
Through our disciplines, we represent different approaches to performing arts; the performative, the aesthetic and the communicative.
The project is a newly established collaboration between actor/MSc in Theatre and Performance Studies, Lise Aagaard Knudsen, architect/urban designer Lieve Smout, and sound designer/radio documentarian Anne Neimann Clement.
Attribution:
Producer/performer/dramaturge: Lise Aagaard Knudsen
Set designer: Lieve Smout
Sound Designer: Anne Neimann Clement
Exile: Performative Conversation