Memento Mori explores how theatre, performance and the cultural practices of death bring mortality to mind, enabling us to reflect upon our own lives and the lives of those departed. Performance equally struggles with the passing of its own event and the complex archival activity that stands in place of its vanishing. Despite our best attempts at seriousness and respect issues of death and dying provoke grim humour, sensationalist performances and slapstick comedy. This issue questions how and why we attempt to negotiate the processes of death and dying or find representations and memorialisations that attempt to normalize the inevitable. Memento Mori includes a range of critical and photographic essays, artist\u2019s pages and interviews, that explore the ways in which death and the cultural practices that surround it are represented and memorialised in social and private spaces, from theatre to everyday ritual.<\/p>\n
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Consider Phlebas \u2026
\nRobert John Brocklehurst, Daniel Watt
\npp. 1 – 3
\nIntro 1: PSi Mis-Performing Papers
\nLada \u010cale Feldman
\npp. 1 – 5
\nThe Hanging Man: Death, indeterminacy and the event
\nLib Taylor
\npp. 4 – 13
\nA Glass of War: LS (remix) Chapter 7
\nMatthew Goulish
\npp. 14 – 22
\nCorpo-Reality, Voyeurs and the Responsibility of Seeing: Night of the Dead on the island of Janitzio, Mexico
\nRuth Hellier-Tinoco
\npp. 23 – 31
\nBeyond Performance: Yukio Mishima\u2019s Theatre of Death
\nYuji Sone
\npp. 32 – 40
\nVodou, Penises and bones: Ritual performances of death and eroticism in the cemetery and the junk yard of Port-au-Prince
\nMyron M. Beasley
\npp. 41 – 47
\nTissue to Text: Ars moriendi and the theatre of anatomy
\nKaren Ingham
\npp. 48 – 57
\nBodyworlds and Theatricality: \u2018Seeing death, live\u2019
\nGianna Bouchard
\npp. 58 – 65
\n[artists pages]
\nKreider + O\u2019leary
\npp. 66 – 71
\nA Rehearsal for Mortals
\nPer Roar
\npp. 72 – 80
\nOn the Performativity of Absence: Death as community
\nNatasha Lushetich
\npp. 81 – 89
\nMartyrium as Performance
\nDaniel T\u00e9rcio
\npp. 90 – 99
\nI see you, but I don\u2019t see you dying \u2026
\nDorinda Hulton
\npp. 100 – 109
\nThe Putrefaction of Diogenes Postponed Memento mori in the work of Robert O. Lenkiewicz (1941\u20132002)
\nM. A. Penwill
\npp. 110 – 122
\nCoffins and Cameras: A conversation with Sheree Rose
\nKlare Scarborough
\npp. 123 – 130
\nOf Last Things in Memento Mori: Silence, eternity and death
\nMichal Kobialka
\npp. 131 – 139
\nThe Death of the Actor
\nNigel Ward
\npp. 140 – 147
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 149 – 150<\/p>\n\n\n