Dying Livingly by Staci Bu Shea - ISBN: 9781915609403
Paperback
Embrace death to live fully: compassionate care for a death-oriented life.

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    144 pages

  • Release Date

    29 October 2024

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Summary

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic and poetic experience of living life led by death.

Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays and lyrical prose written in the first few years of the author’s holistic death care practice. With a focus on the material cultures and sociality of end-of-life spaces, the writing reaches toward a future of compassionate, community-centered death care.

Death has been outsour…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781915609403
ISBN-10:1915609402
Author:Staci Bu Shea
Publisher:Sternberg Press
Imprint:Sternberg Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:29 October 2024
Weight:147g
Dimensions:178mm x 114mm x 10mm
Series:Sternberg Press / Solution Series
About The Author

Staci Bu Shea

Staci Bu Shea (b. Miami, 1988) is a curator, writer, and holistic death care worker based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Broadly, Bu Shea focuses on aesthetic and poetic practices of social reproduction and care work, as well as its manifestations in interpersonal relationships and daily life, community organizing and institutional practice. Bu Shea was curator at Casco Art Institute- Working for the Commons (2017-2022). With Carmel Curtis, they co-curated Barbara Hammer- Evidentiary Bodies at Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (2017). Bu Shea holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (2016). Residence- Utrecht, Netherlands

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