Talk

Beskrivelse

For this third event in the series Ida Marie Hede has invited architect and curator Sofie Højgaard and writer Lea Marie Løppenthin. They will both present their practice and then join Hede in a conversation about possible motives: bodies, places, rituals, myths, our relationship to life and death across time and space.

Sofie Højgaard is conducting research in architecture, rituals, the lack of resources, physics and technology. At the event she will be showing images of ritual spaces and burial sites from her research and from a project from 2019 about ritual gathering places. Burial rites are know to every culture and religion – it marks a shift between matter and spirit, life and death – and in the future perhaps also a shift between the psychical and the virtual? In a time of dna-prints, cryo-preservation and AI it’s a relevant question to ask how burial sites in the future will look like? What will happen with our bodies when we die? Do we REALLY die in the future? Will we have a technological afterlife? How will burial rites look in the future, and who will performe them? Will they be authentic? Will we one day celebrate the archaic, just as we now romanticize the ruin or will the burial be a futuristic pod anchoring a virtual realm of death?

Lea Marie Løppenthin will read from and talk about her latest novel the wild growing Livet går over sine bredder from 2022. The novel is about the organization Cyklus – specialist in sustainable funerals. The deceased are in an environmentally friendly fashion composted into nutritious soil used in the gardening of Cyclus in the town of Maribo. In the novel you also follow the everyday life of a group of humanlike earth individuals, who are exhaling oxygen just as trees and work as gardeners in Cyklus under very precarious circumstances. The novel shows the dilemmas the organization is confronted with in regard to sorrow, rituals, the local community and climate.

The event will as usual commence with Ida Marie Hede inviting her guests to read a short dramatic dialogue with her.

Periode	16 maj 2023
Begivenhedstitel	AHC : Art & Research : Testing Ground : The As Yet Unrealised Performance III : 16.05.23
Begivenhedstype	Andet
Placering	København, DanmarkVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	Lokal