Johanna MacDonald and Tuomas Laitinen

Practice

1) Select some people to write to.
2) Write a unique letter to each person on the subject of everlasting life.
3) Invite people to continue the exercise by writing a letter to someone else.
4) (Optional) Write within a specific time frame, for instance, write as many letters as you can in three days

Performance

On the 4th of March 66 unique letters on everlasting life written in 3 days were sent to 66 recipients. They in turn were asked to continue the practice by writing a letter of their own to someone. The next recipient will get the same exersice and so on.

Tips for better letters:

- Change places and atmosphere often
- Glenfiddich 15 year and cigarettes
- Listen to Arvo Pärt
- Go to libraries and bookstores and lift quotes from poetry and philosophy
- Listen to more music and watch a tiny bit of YouTube, like Stephen Fry and M.A. Numminen and Aubrey de Grey
- Google
- Don't google, and only write what you know
- Have conversations
- Don't censor yourself; use everything
- The letter is done when the letter is done
- Write to your exes
- Write to people you've always wanted to write to but hadn't dared
- Remember to record the date and place
- Use your imagination for a brilliant short etude, or write long enough that you get bored
- El Diablo contains Cassis, Tequila, Ginger ale, and Fresh lime

Images

Jan Ahlstedt