Conversation/debate

Solution 305: Dying Livingly

Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly reflects on the material cultures of death and dying, and gestures toward compassionate, community-centered deathcare. Through essays on impermanence, care, and presence, this publication is a quiet yet urgent call to live and die more attentively–together.

Dying Livingly is part of the Solution Series edited by Ingo Niermann and designed by Zak Group, published by Sternberg Press. The event is made possible in collaboration with Oslo National Academy of the Arts.

Staci Bu Shea is a curator, writer, facilitator, and death doula based in the Netherlands. Broadly, they convene with others over aesthetic, critical, and poetic practices of social reproduction and care work, as well as its manifestations in interpersonal relationships, daily life, community organizing, and institutional practice. Bu Shea was curator at Casco Art Institute of Working for the Commons from 2017–2022 and recently they co-taught the workshop Access Test Kitchen with Mira Thompson for Studium Generale Rietveld Academie and edited the Summer Grief series on Metropolis M.

Jessica Lauren Elizabeth Taylor is an artist researcher working with text, dialogue, archives and moving images. Her roots are in the Southern United States, born in Mississippi and bred in Florida on former Timucan land. Her work centers on themes of ritual, social politics and identity mythology of Black and Indigenous folks. Taylor is currently researching death and mourning practices across the African diaspora as part of her PhD fellowship at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. This conversation is part of her PhD project.

The event is spoken in English. We will have speech to text interpretation.