The Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson has for some time been searching for people who want to dance with him for an hour after they have passed away. Snorri has been searching for volunteers who are willing to donate their dead bodies to art since 2008, and has advertised several times publicly.
The dead body would take part in a video installation, and Snorri promises to return the body to the undertaker, in the exact same condition he received it in.
Will return the body to the undertaker
Snorri‘s latest ad on Facebook explains the unusual request.
“Looking for dead bodies in the name of the art. I need a corpse for a video installation. If you are dying I would like to borrow your remains after you die. The body will be returned to the undertaker in the “same” condition.”
Although Snorri‘s Facebook ad has garnered a respectable number of likes and a few shares, none of the commenters is willing to go so far as to commit. Fellow artist Icelandic Tolli Morthens asks whether the participant can be “liqueur-dead”, because if so, he believes he knows of a candidate. (In Icelandic you refer to anyone who has passed out from overconsumption of alcohol as dead.)
No takers, so far
Snorri tells the local news service Visir.is that he has received several offers, but none from a dying person. Some of those who have promised to lend Snorri their dead remains have attached some stipulations, including the choice of music to be danced to. One person asked that “The things you left” by the American musician Flying Lotus be played during the dance.
But, despite not having any luck securing a body from immediately dying person Snorri remains optimistic, because his advertisements seem to have been getting slightly more attention in the past few days. He tells visir.is that it is relatively easy to buy a dead body in places like Mexico or China, but that such transactions are immoral. The participant in the dance must have given his full and informed consent.
The Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson has for some time been searching for people who want to dance with him for an hour after they have passed away. Snorri has been searching for volunteers who are willing to donate their dead bodies to art since 2008, and has advertised several times publicly.
The dead body would take part in a video installation, and Snorri promises to return the body to the undertaker, in the exact same condition he received it in.
Will return the body to the undertaker
Snorri‘s latest ad on Facebook explains the unusual request.
“Looking for dead bodies in the name of the art. I need a corpse for a video installation. If you are dying I would like to borrow your remains after you die. The body will be returned to the undertaker in the “same” condition.”
Although Snorri‘s Facebook ad has garnered a respectable number of likes and a few shares, none of the commenters is willing to go so far as to commit. Fellow artist Icelandic Tolli Morthens asks whether the participant can be “liqueur-dead”, because if so, he believes he knows of a candidate. (In Icelandic you refer to anyone who has passed out from overconsumption of alcohol as dead.)
No takers, so far
Snorri tells the local news service Visir.is that he has received several offers, but none from a dying person. Some of those who have promised to lend Snorri their dead remains have attached some stipulations, including the choice of music to be danced to. One person asked that “The things you left” by the American musician Flying Lotus be played during the dance.
But, despite not having any luck securing a body from immediately dying person Snorri remains optimistic, because his advertisements seem to have been getting slightly more attention in the past few days. He tells visir.is that it is relatively easy to buy a dead body in places like Mexico or China, but that such transactions are immoral. The participant in the dance must have given his full and informed consent.
