The Posthumous World

Our bodies, our planet and the world that will continue after us.

‘The Posthumous World’ is an interdisciplinary, practice based research project which explores death, dying and our relationship with the planet. At its centre will be a new artwork. A poetic meditation on the body’s journey to re-join the ecosphere after death, it will also be a scientifically accurate visual simulation of the artist’s body being assimilated back into the environment.

how can we create a relationship with a world that will continue without us?
the corpse as continuity and as transformation
the corpse as an artistic medium
green burial: my body as a gift to the planet
eco-grief: how do we mourn for the environment? How do we bury the myth of limitless growth?
reversing your decomposition: the science of life history reconstruction
the data of the dead and the informational corpse
can death survive technology? What is immortality for?
DIY burial: your ancestors in your back garden
secular spiritualities: ‘ecological immortality’
can we imagine a green ancestor shrine?
animism and the life of the corpse

A collaboration between artists, forensic and ecological scientists and scholars of death and dying.