Yama Rahimi's (Afghanistan) Creation Song (2014) juxtaposes footage of a cemetery with images of a stonemason chiselling headstones and explores
rituals of mourning, burial and renewal.
«Our very humanity resides within the devotion or contempt that we assign to our practices, processes, and
rituals of mourning,» Salcedo has written.
Churches offer pastoral sympathy and support to the bereaved, but there seem now in the West to be no agreed
rituals of mourning, as for example in most Orthodox Jewish families.
Not exact matches
If the Jesus story ended on Friday, then the disciples can simply be «the eleven,» and after the appropriate
rituals and a season
of mourning, they can go back to life as it was.
Elephants are capable
of mourning and simple burial
rituals and understanding death and likely, according to recent research, have complex emotions.
According to ancient texts, the body was supposed to be kept under natron for 35 days, and then kept around, exposed, for another 35 — perhaps for a period
of mourning or other religious
rituals.
The Fore population in Papua New Guinea ate the brains
of their tribe members as an act
of mourning, a
ritual that allowed a misshapen protein to spread through the population.
Nothing that traumatic goes down in «This Is Where I Leave You,» a kitchen - sink dramedy about a suburban New York family reuniting for the Jewish
mourning ritual of shiva, directed by Levy from a script and book by the novelist Jonathan Tropper.
Their participation in the
mourning rituals makes the death seem less abstract and scary and helps them achieve a sense
of closure with the deceased.»
Of course, they're late to my party; no, on second thought, late to my shivah, the Jewish
ritual mourning period, typically seven days but in Lakewood an eternity.
Mourning the passing
of a loved one is a natural and necessary process that has different rules, guidelines and
rituals depending on ones beliefs, offering structure for the grieving.
When the novel begins, Christopher, the narrator's husband, has been in Greece for a month to conduct research for a book, a general - interest «study
of mourning rituals around the world» — an odd topic, the narrator thinks, for a «careless flirt» in his early 40s who has never suffered loss.
End Notes is a collection
of 10 interlinked stories about loss,
mourning and commemoration.An English girl uses a Nigerian
ritual to
mourn her beloved grandmother; journalists in pursuit
of a story carry out «the death knock»; siblings discover hidden aspects
of their father's life when they attend his two very different funerals; a Spanish woman encounters unexpected tenderness and grace in a London hospice; a collector goes in search
of ghost stories at a haunted Finnish manor; 1988, 2016, 2017 - what was wrong with those years?
Yet, our culture does not provide us with the
rituals to help us
mourn the loss
of a companion animal, as it does with the loss
of a human.
This leads on to what Humeau calls a «biological showroom»
of elephants, engaged in an elaborate
mourning ritual.
Programs in the drill hall include the North American stage premiere
of Louis Andriessen's De Materie, directed by composer Heiner Goebbels and featuring the International Contemporary Ensemble in a visually dramatic production incorporating music, dance, and spoken word; a new commission by visual artist and musician Martin Creed that marks his largest installation in the U.S. to date and reimagines the Armory's drill hall and period rooms in a surprising meditation on existence; a major new work by artist Taryn Simon that explores
rituals of grief and
mourning; and Circle Map, a program
of ambitious spatial works by composer Kaija Saariaho that features the New York Philharmonic.
It is this loss
of their traditional cultures that his listless figures seem to
mourn, their bright fabrics hanging limply from their bodies, their hands clutching
ritual objects whose functions seem less and less apparent.
Each
of the book's ten chapters introduces a theme: ideas
of the Creation, the figure
of Jesus, the sublime, wonder, diaspora and exile, religious and political conflict,
ritual practice,
mourning and monumentalizing, and spiritual «dwelling» in the body and in space, followed by a selection
of works that illustrates that theme.
Displayed in stark white - on - white galleries, the sealed vitrines become hermetic environments for contemplation or even
mourning as these silenced objects
of ritual, play, and aesthetic devotion seem to have reached some form
of transcendent afterlife.
The latter is informed by the traditions
of death and
mourning such as the Hungry Ghost Festival and the history
of graveyards and burial
rituals in Hong Kong.