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This workshop arrives at the close of the Day of the Dead and will focus on coming to terms with mortality and embracing the self as a future corpses. Conceptual Artist Lindsay Tunkl wrote her book, When You Die You Will Not Be Scared To Die, as a response to her own fear of death and dying. The lists in her book are meditations, mantras, spells, promises, and ritual. In this workshop, the book becomes an example and jumping off point for participants to create rituals out of their fears. Rituals can be many things; walking the same way to work every day, calling your mother every Sunday, lighting a candle for the dead etc… Through embodiment exercises, group discussion and group activities participants will explore their own emotional relationship to dying and create their own mortality honoring ritual.
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Lindsay Tunkl’s artistic practice has been described as absurd, over-emotional, healing, and tragic. In an attempt to understand the particular experience of the human life cycle during the Anthropocene (the societal moment that our species began contributing to its own demise) Tunkl uses her art practice as a way to connect and share in the heartbreaking realities we all inhabit in this contemporary moment. Drawing from her own irrational fears of the apocalypse, death, and intimacy, the artist has found that these topics – the things that scare us the most – are a platform for profound human connection and closeness.
Tunkl graduated from California College of the Arts in 2017 with a MFA and a MA in Visual + Critical Studies and from CalArts with a BFA in 2010.
Her work has been shown in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany: most notably at The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Center For Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, Performance Space, London, Southern Exposure, San Francisco and Gruentaler9, Berlin.
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