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Life@Death 2020 REQUIEM

20 March 2020 @ 6:00 pm - 9 April 2020 @ 4:00 pm

free
Church-wall-paintings

Exhibition 20 March – 9 April

Exhibition Curator: Dieter Engler

Opening Night 20 March at 6 pm-Postponed, date TBA

Artist in Residence

Chef Sam Prance-Smith
Sam is a talented, SA born and bred chef who traveled the world and worked as a chef in restaurants like Star of Greece, Attica, Cutler and Co, Brooks of Melbourne to make a full circle and settle in Stirling where he grew up.Sam is passionate about sustainability and he would like to create a unique but inviting experience for his guests.
See Sam at the Life@Death Exhibition opening and also at sustainable and ethical fish and chippery in Sterling  

Mozart – Requiem in D minor

Watch Dieter Engler talking about Life@Death 2020 Theme : Requiem

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Thank you to our ongoing Life@Death Sponsor Alfred James & Sons Pty Ltd  who supported us again this year.

Life@death 2020 – ReQuiem

Artists are invited to contribute to our 2020 Life@death exhibition. The theme we will be exploring is “ReQuiem”. Traditionally a requiem is a mass for a dead person, but it may be more commonly associated with it’s musical form, a sung mass for the dead. Faure’s requiem and Mozart’s requiem are well known. The word comes from the latin “quiem” meaning to rest or be at peace, and “re” meaning “again”. So requiem is to “rest again”. It is the ‘again’ part of the word that is intriguing and gives a requiem it’s special flavour. It is not just something said or done at death but it is a coming to terms with death and loss.

What might we need to come to terms with in regards to our experiences of death and loss – personally and socially? And how can we come to terms with death and loss? It is said that in 1483 Count Werner of Zimmern had 1000 requiems said for him. In one way a requiem is that struggle to make sense of what has happened, to analyse it, to celebrate or mourn it, but always with the aim of bringing our loss to rest. Importantly it is a remembering or reflecting on death rather than a forgetting or denial.

This year I will be doing some reflecting on this theme via vlogs which will be available through Gallery One’s website. However you get involved in the Life@death process, you are encouraged to contribute either a new or an old work to the 2020 exhibition that will help us reflect and come to terms with our losses and deaths, whatever they may be.

Dieter Engler

Details

Start:
20 March 2020 @ 6:00 pm
End:
9 April 2020 @ 4:00 pm
Cost:
free

Venue

Gallery One
1 Torrens Street
Mitcham, South Australia 5062 Australia
Phone
(08) 8272 4504

Organisers

Gallery One
Mitcham Village Unitin Church