Dead Real

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Design, Exhibitions, Publications
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collaborative, death, diy funeral, dying, natural burial, self-organised, wake

in Zimbabwe, says Tapi – we call this opening the sky

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A bookwork produced for the exhibition: Death and Dying. MAG3, Vienna

 

Invited by curator David Lillington to make work for Death & Dying I produced the limited edition (25) artwork / book Dead Real

 

28.05.03: a coroner calls to tell me Alan Boreham has died. It takes a few seconds to realise he means my old friend Cat.

 

‘Would you be prepared to take responsibility for his estate and funeral arrangements? He has no family and you are the first person in his address book.’

 

‘OK’ I say.

 

A group of strangers (artists and activists), brought together by the death of a mutual friend, take the business of funeral arrangements into their own hands. Deadline: 07.06.03 (ten days)

 

 

for further information see PDF(s):


Dead Real (2.3MB)

book sampler – if you want to purchase a copy of the real thing get in touch.

 

info(at)annielovejoy.net

 

Death and Dying (355KB)

exhibition information

 

 

Dead Real

 

the lady from the cafe asked
to open the coffin
to see him one more time

 

for a moment
in the midst of the city mayhem, people and traffic
everything stopped

 

Dead Real

 

Dead Real