Research Portfolio

Theoretical Research

-How do the living maintain ongoing relationships with the dead in Western societies?-How have the residual belongings of the dead been used to evoke memories?-Why has the body and its material environment remained so important in memory-making?Objects, images, practices, and places remind us of the deaths of others and of our own mortality.

InDeath in Documentaries: The Memento Mori Experience, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter suggests that documentaries are an especially apt form of contemporary Memento Mori; that is, documentaries offer transformative experiences for a viewer to renew one’s consciousness of mortality.

Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself.These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years -- sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell.

Case Study

Death Design - Urn

Mark Quinn - Self

Mark Quinn - Skeletons

Korea other use VR glasses

Recreate the scene of her daughter

Gweilo - White lamp

Practical Work

Mind Map

Interview Questionnaire

1. Have you ever lost a family member or loved one？

2. Which country and region are you from?

3. Religious beliefs？

4. How often do you honor the dead with rituals such as grave sweeping？

5. When do you usually miss the dead？

6. Do you keep any special belongings of the deceased as a memento？

7. Do you think there is any good way to commemorate it？

Framework