Eternal sleep
Video, Installation
2018—2019
How can death be approached mentally? And how can humans think about their own finitude?
A proposal: The Greek root of the word graveyard can be translated as "sleeping place" or "sleeping chamber". If we imagine that we experience a small death in our sleep every night, then each awakening in the morning is like a rebirth. The cemetery, on the other hand, is a place of eternal sleep.
In fall 2018, I carried out fieldrecordings on 24 cemeteries in Cologne. Under this link, you can listen to some of those places:
What does the sleep of the dead sound like?
Sleep is often described as the little brother of death. In Greek mythology, they are siblings: Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death), children of Nyx — the goddess of the night.)
A proposal: The Greek root of the word graveyard can be translated as "sleeping place" or "sleeping chamber". If we imagine that we experience a small death in our sleep every night, then each awakening in the morning is like a rebirth. The cemetery, on the other hand, is a place of eternal sleep.
In fall 2018, I carried out fieldrecordings on 24 cemeteries in Cologne. Under this link, you can listen to some of those places:
What does the sleep of the dead sound like?
Sleep is often described as the little brother of death. In Greek mythology, they are siblings: Hypnos (sleep) and Thanatos (death), children of Nyx — the goddess of the night.)
