R.I.P. Services
onemorequestion’s performance/installation explores the limits of our self-
determination in today’s consumerist society obsessed with optimization and efficiency. Due to the enormous progress in medicine during the last decades, our life can be prolonged in ways that were unimaginable for the past generations. However, we are also forced to take more control over life and death than ever before in history. R.I.P. SERVICES helps you manage the challenges of death and dying in the most enjoyable way possible.
R.I.P. SERVICES premiered at the URB 16 Festival / Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki in August 2016: 4.8. at 19:00, 5.8. at 19:00, 6.8. at 18:00 and 7.8. at 16:00
Location: Alppitalo office building, Alppila district
"…R.I.P. SERVICES offered us one surprise after another; it was a very detailed crash course on dying preparation … Sounds distressing? Not at all, because the pleasant soundscape, the precise script, intriguing video projections, and the common breathing exercises guided us gently to reflect on these issues … The performance managed to “scratch” a crack in the untouched “mental foil” of the human mind that keeps the fear of death away … This service that chaffed at life-coaching businesses, was, I would say, a frighteningly brilliant idea.”
Raisa Rauhamaa, Teatteri & Tanssi
ARTISTIC TEAM
Artistic director, script, performance: Joonas Lahtinen
Dramaturgy, script, production: Luzie Stransky
Performance, script: Mikko Niemistö
Set and lighting design: Eero Erkamo
Performance: Tanja Turpeinen, Jukka Heiskanen, Harald Jokesch, Esther Csapo and others TBA
R.I.P. SERVICES is supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Finnish Cultural Fund / Uusimaa Regional Fund and ruumisarkkuliike.fi