12 ETUDES ON EVERLASTING LIFE

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock

All but life is in vain
Juice Leskinen

12 etudes on everlasting life attempted to find 12 ways to practice a life everlasting. It was be performed monthly during the year 2010 and the parts are collected into a manual of life practice during the year 2011. The piece was created in collaboration between Tuomas Laitinen and a different artist for each part, every time during an uniterrupted 72-hour working period.

Maybe the greatest issue approached by religions is the ability of humans to survive. Belief and spiritual practice are seen as a way to conquer death by somehow joining divinity. At the same time immortality and eternity are concepts that are hard to grasp. Therefore they are handled through negation – the infinite can only be uttered through pronouncing the finite.

Concept: Tuomas Laitinen (theater/performance artist)

Artists:
Ishmael Falke (puppet artist), Johanna MacDonald (perfomance artist), Rausparan (neoshamanistic performanceduo), Carl-Erik Engqvist (new media artist), Jyri Pitkänen (photographer/performance artist), Aapo Korkeaoja (performance artist), Anna Maria Häkkinen (choreographer/dancer), Tellervo Kalleinen (performance artist), Wisa Knuuttila (visual artist/performer), Dasniya Sommer (rope artist), Nagashila (painter)