[Sci-tech-public] TODAY: Postmortem Options: A Workshop on the Dead Body

[Jae Rhim Lee]

Postmortem Options: A Workshop on the Dead Body 
hosted by the Decompiculture Society
 
Tuesday Jan 25, 2011
6-9pm
 
MIT, Wiesner Building, Room E15-207
20 Ames Street, Cambridge


Jae Rhim Lee, Mushroom Burial Site (Bridgeville, CA), Infinity Burial Project
 
Join the Decompiculture Society for a free workshop exploring new and traditional technologies in the funeral industry. Presentations on options of burial, cremation and alternatives will be given by a diverse group of representatives, including:
 
- Joe Sehee, Green Burial Council
- Emma Crossen and Nancy Accola, Funeral Consumers Alliance of Eastern Massachusetts
- Captain Brad White, New England Burials at Sea, LLC
- Ruth Faas, Mourning Dove Studio
- Paul Harrington, Licensed Funeral Director and Former Manager, Forest Hills Crematory
- Jae Rhim Lee, Infinity Burial Project
 
The workshop is an opportunity to discuss some of the options and to navigate our cultural attitudes toward death. Further information on participating in the Decompiculture Society will be provided.

This workshop is sponsored by the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology and the Decompiculture Society, a newly formed group that promotes death awareness and acceptance and the cultivation of decomposing organisms.  The Decompiculture Society is a component of the Infinity Burial Project, an art/design project by Jae Rhim Lee, with funding from the Creative Capital Foundation.

http://infinityburialproject.com/society
Contact: Jae Rhim Lee, jrlee at mit.edu, 617-710-4188



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Jae Rhim Lee
Research Fellow
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
School of Architecture and Planning
Fax: 617.253.3977
Mobile: 617.710.4188
jrlee at mit.edu
http://infinityburialproject.com
www.jaerhimlee.com
http://visualarts.mit.edu

MAILING ADDRESS:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Building E15-213
Cambridge, MA 02139

STREET ADDRESS:
75 Amherst Street, Building E14
Cambridge, MA 02139









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