This workshop is designed to help us think-feel our way into such questions as the following: How do we sense absence? How may we sense in ways we didn’t know we could, beyond the normative, secular entrainment of ‘our’ sensory apparatus? How might such possibilities and capabilities orient us differently to death and the afterlife?
Based on my academic research, work in performance and Butoh, as well as work as and with death doulas, this workshop will consist of 1) a set of exercises that attempt to attune our minds and bodies to what is not supposed to be there; and, 2) a discussion framework taken from an eclectic mix of the Anthropology of death and secularism, sensory anthropology and a bit of neuroscience.