Marcus Coates will see families of the dead assemble in Arnos Vale graveyard to query loved ones a final questionAs dusk falls on the Victorian angels and leaning tombstones,voices will ring out across Arnos Vale cemetery in Bristol, questioning the dead. The questions range from heartbreaking to barely printable: “Why didn’t you let me say goodbye?” one woman will query, and while a man wants to know “Any chance of one last blowjob?”Marcus Coates,an artist whose work often explores shamanism and ritual, has for months been inviting people to leave their questions at the cemetery. On Friday night they will return and query them aloud, and hear them chanted like an incantation echoing from speakers set among the memorials to waken the sleepers. Related: Marcus Coates: 'Eventually something serious comes through' Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com