Death is something more than just grief and fear, as it usually is perceived. Death is a big gray area, a twilight in which I wander and find at hand either the hair of a dead dog, or the slow presence of a dead object, or reasoning about the politics of the body, or I cease to hold a narrative about myself at all.
Death always gives the opportunity to do something new. A step outside, a look from the outside, a wider context. Wherever it seems that we understood something, she is right there.
Knowing your mortality is the perfect tool for being alive. Be with yourself. Be with yourself.
Being vulnerable and powerful at the same time.
Be gentle and brave at the same time.
Be ready to take on everything and give yourself completely.
To be a body that is both alive and dead and constantly changing.
We will be having this overnight journey on the boat with a sauna.
The boat is placed in Berlin, you don’t need to go far out of the city.
Participants will arrive one by one on the paddle boat with our help, starting from 17:00 on the 25.09.
We will gather at 19:00 to start our first circle and last supper, which will slowly transform into a personal journey through death practices that will lead you into the sauna - and back to the last circle.
If you have got a job in the morning, you will be able to sleep on the boat - or just continue arriving on the other side of your journey through the night. We will organize two different spaces for two different modi.
On the boat, there is a toilet, a shower, a bed linen, and a kitchen to prepare smth for yourself that you might need. Also, a sauna, a fire pit and a whole journey to the other side.
This overnight experience will last 15 hours and will consist of somatic, performative, traditional, and sauna practices related to or inspired by death.
Warning: This is not a therapy workshop.
For you, if you are a performer, a dancer, an actor, a child, a parent, a friend, a human.
For everybody.
The boat is placed in Berlin, you don’t need to travel out of the city.
Participants will arrive one by one on the paddle boats with our help, starting from 17:00 on the 25.09. On the map, you will find location of our starting point.
Participants can leave the boat anytime with the help of our team - by 11:00 in the morning of 26.09.
Hi, we are Vera and Miriam.
Vera has been working with death for the last three years.
In an artistic, somatic, and performative approach.
Miriam has been doing sauna work for the last three years.
We started this death journey together in May, and we are going over to the next phase.