No Silence in the Afterlife: A Lecture-Performance-Meditation on Silence by Abou Farman
The book has been shaped by explorations in an invented afterlife practice. No Silence in the Afterlife has no beginning or ending, and it may be opened from both ends. Please do so: Open life from both ends.
An anthropologist, writer, and artist, Abou Farman is the author of On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience, Clerks of the Passage, and No Silence in the Afterlife. He is a co-founder of Art Space Sanctuary, Casa Ojala, and the Shipibo Conibo Center.
Advance praise for the book
“No Silence in the Afterlife broke my heart and healed it. Abou Farman gifts us a language that once belonged to our ancestors and to their ancestors, who exist as cosmos and earth, born up as we each were from ancient oceans.” Natalie Diaz
“Abou Farman mourns the loss of his beloved as she crosses into the invisible. He sends sonic and poetic gestures after her into the after-states and the cosmos, linguistically exploring the transparent realm as testament to his organic contact with what persists here, on this side, with him.” Will Alexander
“Tragically victorious through language, he transmutes his loss into the heartbreaking perfection of this elegiac work.” Monica de la Torre
This event is free and open to the public. It is organized by the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics.