The Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death) 5th ed.

I am Beatrice who urges you to journey,
Come from a place to which I long to return.
Love moved me to speak my heart to you.
(Inf. II, 70-72)

Let us summon one dear to us, a deceased friend or loved one, and take him or her with us, from the first moment to the end of a journey. Each person who decides to participate in “The Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death),” in its fifth edition this year, is invited to bring along someone they have lost, to create a particular and pervasive dimension of accompaniment, starting with the preparations for the departure to reach San Cesario di Lecce. Each can bring to life this voyage-in-company in the way they deem best, relying on imagination, intuition, storytelling. Will this presence/absence guide our steps and our encounters, in order to speak, like Beatrice, with us and for us?

The Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death), 3 ed.

 

You are invited to join a collective action which will be taking place all around the world simultaneously, on November 2nd, 2012 (10am New York; 11am Buenos Aires; 12pm São Paulo; 3pm London; 4pm Cairo/Rome; 5pm Addis Ababa; 9pm Phnom Penh; 10pm Beijing/Shanghai).
Each participant to this collective action, at the same time and according to his/her choice of location and modalities, will try to establish contact with somebody who has passed away (a friend, a relative, a public figure).
Two or three days after this “meeting” we ask you to send us a word or a short sentence (of maximum two lines) that could represent or evoke such experience. Please do not send long texts, images or videos.

By the end of November, the words and sentences that will be sent by the participants will be transferred, using the old “fresco” technique, on the walls of “Lu Cafausu”, in San Cesario di Lecce, Southern Italy. On this occasion, together with the realization of the fresco, we will organize a celebration.
In the next days we will circulate email with more details for this final event of “The Celebration of the Living (who reflect upon death)”.

Please confirm your participation here, and then send your words or sentence to lafestadeivivi (@) gmail.com

Lu Cafausu is a collaborative art project by Emilio Fantin, Luigi Negro,Giancarlo Norese, Cesare Pietroiusti, and Luigi Presicce.