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Take off your shoes but keep your socks on before stepping onto the carpet and moving towards the coffins. You are about to enter a simulated sacred space.
Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS is wonderfully ambivalent. Even the title suggests it. This ambivalence is typical of Deja, whose practice revolves around existential reflections that are both unsettling and seductive. Whether it’s cryogenically frozen bodies in sleeping bags that unconsciously live on after death or a roller coaster ride into your own grave, with Deja you often find yourself on the threshold between life and death, between biology and technology.
This time she turns her attention to the phenomenon of griefbots – a new technology that allows the bereaved to communicate with a digital version of their deceased using artificial intelligence. A kind of grief software where the spiritual has been digitally updated. Here you don’t enter a church but a simulated temple, where birds chirping and organ tones mix...More
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Take off your shoes but keep your socks on before stepping onto the carpet and moving towards the coffins. You are about to enter a simulated sacred space.
Stine Deja’s GRAVE MATTERS is wonderfully ambivalent. Even the title suggests it. This ambivalence is typical of Deja, whose practice revolves around existential reflections that are both unsettling and seductive. Whether it’s cryogenically frozen bodies in sleeping bags that unconsciously live on after death or a roller coaster ride into your own grave, with Deja you often find yourself on the threshold between life and death, between biology and technology.
This time she turns her attention to the phenomenon of griefbots – a new technology that allows the bereaved to communicate with a digital version of their deceased using artificial intelligence. A kind of grief software where the spiritual has been digitally updated. Here you don’t enter a church but a simulated temple, where birds chirping and organ tones mix...More
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