How to Die – Inopiné

How to Die – Inopiné is a performance and a practice. It thinks through, in an embodied manner, the prevailing contemporary moods of ecological grief, cultural panic, and collapse. As a performance in a theater or outdoors, an audience encounters five dancers who are constantly building, unbuilding, and rebuilding. Afterwards, stories are told around a bonfire. As a practice in the studio, school, or street, a group of dancers, artists, writers, and architects meet for a year of residencies between Oslo and Umeå. They host a working process and encounter external informants. The goal is to displace oneself into the unexpected. This publication, two years in the making, engages with the challenges of translating a choreographic process into the space of a book. It both documents the project’s development as well as offering the reader-doer different modes of thinking-doing, from somatic practices to proposals for a curriculum. Experiments in writing, mapping, and moving are played with, all engaging with the question, “what is the future of displaced thinking?”

How to Die – Inopiné

Edited by
Ashkan Sepahvand
Co-edited
by Mia Habib
Project Assistance by
Grethe Henden, Siri Leonardsen, and Elisabeth Carmen Gmeiner
Copyediting by
Ari Níelsson
Designed by
Fag Tips (virgil b/g taylor)
Printed by
KOPA, Lithuania
In collaboration with
Mia Habib Productions
English
256 pages
20 x 26 cm
ISBN 978-3-948212-97-1
Euros 28,00