„you too, shall pass“ is a continuation of the burial installation concept born last year as „I am the sacrifice on the altar of paradox“. this year the invitation is to imagine our decay in the soil in a chamber of quietude within the chaotic realms of hermannplatz. death, this deeply tabooed aspect of reality which is paradoxically the one truth that unites all beings on earth, has been sterilized and overtaken by religion and capitalism in ways, that have disconnected us from the deep teachings death has to share with us in order for us to live well. as our western culture doesn’t reflect a healthy encounter with our finite existence we lack spaces to sit with and imagine the end of our life. „you too, shall pass“ is conceived from that longing, to feel the palpable sacredness of the threshold that accompanies us in each moment of our lives. simultaneously it is an offering to our ancestral traditions which would honor the dead around this time of the year, knowing that life doesn’t end with death and that our ancestors play a vital role in influencing life on earth. in that it is also an inquiry in how the demonization of the earth through christianity & other religions has created a distorted perception of the body being „sinful“ and separated from the earth. in that sentiment, it is an act of honoring our interdependent existence with a vast community of life-forms which are all part of a giving & receiving cycle, out of which humans have taken their bodies, as well as their hearts & beliefs. what if we stopped being greedy even at the end of our lives and we would actually offer our bodies back to the soil to feed the web of creation? this is an invitation for meditation on this question in a burial made from earth donated by the cemetery luisenstadt gemeinde located on hermannstrasse which is adorned with moss, herbs, berries, birch and rock and imbued with a three hour long sound installation woven out of laments, chorals, field recordings, podcast excerpts and music from different cultural contexts about the journey of the soul. this is an invitation to you to practice dying, because, you too, shall pass.


a'manda vybés aka mort'æ'dela

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