Death Cafe profile for Oreet Ashery
Location: United Kingdom
About Oreet Ashery :
Oreet Ashery is a visual artist and an educator working with political/bio-fiction, gender materiality and potential communities, in local and international contexts. Ashery’s recent work is an artist web-series Revisiting Genesis, shortlisted for the Jarman Film Award 2017, on digital death, memory as identity and feminist art reincarnations, http://revisitinggenesis.net
What brings you to Death Cafe?
My last piece of art work, the web series Revisiting Genesis, the loss of a family member and the recent loss of a number of artists I know.
What would you like your legacy to be?
The people I love and my art work
Thoughts for sharing:
We dont prepare and talk enough about death or dying
Oreet Ashery 's posts on the Death Cafe website
Death Cafe write up: Death Cafe in Kingston
Posted by Oreet Ashery on May 27, 2016, 4:49 a.m.
The Death Café was attended by 5 people, with the initial topic for discussion to be death online and digital legacy, as these were themes present in the work on show at the gallery space. The event was attended by a student who was doing her thesis on the ecology of death and the design projects that were in place to faciliate the most eco-friendly ways of dying possible. As a result of this, the conversation was orientated towards these themes which was very insightful and educational for all involved. What was interesting was that the conversation focused on these environmental topics in death, and then went back ...
With Oreet Ashery
May 25, 2016, 5.00 p.m. - 7.00 p.m. (UK)
No donation expected
This event provides an informal, non-expert and comfortable environment in which to discuss aspects of death such as Digital Legacy, memory as identity and Death Online.