Yours, Death
2023
Two HD video 1920 × 1080, beamed at different parts of the space (shipping container) on loop.
Complete duration: 00:15:00. Camera: Panasonic LUMIX DMC G7.
‘Yours, Death’ is an art installation composed out of video-material, filmed in the theatre of Utrecht. These videos are part of a research into the trauma responses during the first stages of grief.
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The work: ‘Yours, Death’ is a video installation at Haven Festival IJmuiden (2024), in which the audience is taken in theatrical flight to a place of active grief. Real lavender plants placed inside the installation; accompanied the text and gave a more sensorial experience to the viewers. The audience walked around the container with wireless headphones, so they could fully emerge themselves with the audio.
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The participants (the ones seen in the video) all lost a parent at a young age; they were asked to make poetic gestures and create images: that represented their grief and stories of ‘encountering death’. The audio used, consists of letters written to “death”.