Walking with the Dead
2023
2023
An interactive garment and audio meditation guided walk (duration 00:28 minutes : 28 seconds) available to check out from the CCAM Lending Lab, where Yale student’s check out film and Media Equipment.
The audio meditation was made in collaboration with dancer-educator Jeff Rehg, Carper's uncle, who passed away in 2001. Jeff wrote the score, Walking with the Dead, while living with HIV, after his partner and countless friends passed away. Carper has reimagined this score as a walking guide to give participants an opportunity, permission, and a framework to acknowledge the presence of passed loved ones.
Garments were designed using the clothing Carper’s ex left behind after a break up. A short sleeve button-down, 2 pairs of thong underwear, and a pair of denim shorts were all copied into paper patterns, and cut in new fabric. The un-sewn pieces were reconfigured in their reconstruction, blended together, and dispersed into three new garments
The audio meditation was made in collaboration with dancer-educator Jeff Rehg, Carper's uncle, who passed away in 2001. Jeff wrote the score, Walking with the Dead, while living with HIV, after his partner and countless friends passed away. Carper has reimagined this score as a walking guide to give participants an opportunity, permission, and a framework to acknowledge the presence of passed loved ones.
Garments were designed using the clothing Carper’s ex left behind after a break up. A short sleeve button-down, 2 pairs of thong underwear, and a pair of denim shorts were all copied into paper patterns, and cut in new fabric. The un-sewn pieces were reconfigured in their reconstruction, blended together, and dispersed into three new garments
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