Publication documenting the award-winning web series
Revisiting
Genesis by Oreet Ashery. This documentary fiction on mourning in
the
digital age explores
complex issues such as gender and death, digital reincarnation, and
women
artists.
“When I looked at mourning as a possible space for agency—or at least as a
form or an aesthetic— I was thinking about the relationship between
proximity and distance. The Internet can allow forms of mourning that
aren't always possible in real life, especially for minority groups, but
it also exploits it. It is, for me, one of the questions of our time; how
do we navigate the co-option of the Internet and social media?”—Oreet
Ashery
How We Die Is How We Live Only More So brings together written
responses to Oreet Ashery's award-winning film work
Revisiting
Genesis (2016). This work, originally conceived as a web series,
presents the fictional story of the dying artist Genesis alongside
conversations with artists who have real life-limiting conditions. The
publication includes writing by Rizvana Bradley,
T.
J. Demos, Mason Leaver-Yap, Imani Robinson, and Bárbara Rodríguez
Muñoz along with the scripts for
Revisiting Genesis and
Dying under Your Eyes (2019) and an interview of Ashery by George
Vasey. Ashery's work explores queer and outsider death and dying, care,
politics of the digital afterlife and posthumous service technologies as
well as
feminist
reincarnation, sociopolitical loss, and artistic withdrawal.
Oreet Ashery (born 1966 in Jerusalem, Israel, lives and works in London)
is an interdisciplinary artist whose socially engaged practice includes
exhibitions,
performances,
videos and writing that
explore issues of
gender
materiality, potential communities and political fiction.
