Difference between revisions of "Six More Minutes"
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|Summary=“What would you say if you have six more minutes with your lost love ones?” | |Summary=“What would you say if you have six more minutes with your lost love ones?” | ||
| − | |Article=“Six More Minutes” is a collection of answers on that very question through WhatsApp messages, video interviews and postcards. These answers transform mourning into a collective contemporary shrine in digital realm. | + | |Article=A man sitting behind a video cam broadcasting through the internet starting to share his feeling |
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| + | “I was just rubbing her head the whole time. And I told her ‘I love you’. | ||
| + | She kept saying she was scared. | ||
| + | And I said, ‘Don’t be. It’s OK’. | ||
| + | And she just kept saying ‘I don’t want to leave you alone’. | ||
| + | And I say, ‘It’s OK Grand Ma. You raised me, you taught me how to be a man. She taught me to shave, how to balance a checkbook, she taught me how to be an adult..” | ||
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| + | [[File:Hi Nanan.jpg|thumb|If only I could send my departed Nanan a whatsapp message.]] | ||
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| + | [[File:Dear Dad.jpg|thumb|If only I could send a Whatsapp message to my departed Dad.]] | ||
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| + | [[File:Lieve Opa.jpg|thumb|If only I could send my slowly dying Opa a postcard.]] | ||
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| + | “Six More Minutes” is a collection of answers on that very question through WhatsApp messages, video interviews and postcards. These answers transform mourning into a collective contemporary shrine in digital realm. | ||
Six more minutes started with my fear of loosing my ageing parent and my attempt to make sense the feeling of intimacy, mourn, longing and regret. | Six more minutes started with my fear of loosing my ageing parent and my attempt to make sense the feeling of intimacy, mourn, longing and regret. | ||
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A man sitting behind a video cam broadcasting through the internet starting to share his feeling
“I was just rubbing her head the whole time. And I told her ‘I love you’. She kept saying she was scared. And I said, ‘Don’t be. It’s OK’. And she just kept saying ‘I don’t want to leave you alone’. And I say, ‘It’s OK Grand Ma. You raised me, you taught me how to be a man. She taught me to shave, how to balance a checkbook, she taught me how to be an adult..”
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“Six More Minutes” is a collection of answers on that very question through WhatsApp messages, video interviews and postcards. These answers transform mourning into a collective contemporary shrine in digital realm.
Six more minutes started with my fear of loosing my ageing parent and my attempt to make sense the feeling of intimacy, mourn, longing and regret.
The feeling of intimacy, mourn, longing and regret are typically a private feeling. Six more minutes presents a glimpse of these feelings shared in the internet.
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