The Festival de la Mort, organised by the Coopérative Funéraire de Rennes, aims to take a different approach to death, by placing it at the heart of the city. Discover the first edition of this hybrid event combining knowledge, rituals, live performance, artistic creation and unique sound experiences. The programme includes:

EXHIBITIONS

Le peuple des objets – An altar-like installation created by visual artist Lucile Marsaux, in which she explores how heirlooms maintain ties with the dead.

Les brodeuses de sons – Lucile Milliard (producer of the podcast, La mort, tout un art) and Yasmine Abi Saab (sound producer for Zéro de conduite) spent a year travelling in a sound caravan through villages and towns collecting stories about bereavement, to provide a better understanding of what connects us to the deceased.

Le design et la mort – Students from L’Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués (LISAA) in Rennes will be exhibiting the fruit of one year’s research into design and death, looking at how to design the spaces of tomorrow to deal with death.

Le Thanatomaton – Visual artists Marine Frugès and Ève Le Trévédic invite us to imagine ourselves in a very familiar object… a coffin. Customised just for the occasion!

IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES

Flirting with finitude – Mexican visual artist Cristina Maldonado has created a unique travel agency to help us explore the notion of finitude.

Metamortem – Collectif Grands Dehors explores the rituals of tomorrow.

SONGS AND WORDS

Les criées mortelles will offer mortals the chance to send messages to the beyond.

Le Choeur Mortel – Death can be deep, sensitive, collective and intimate. We may want to celebrate it to better commemorate it. What better way to experience all this than through music?

This Sunday, discover the documentary film Les mots de la fin at Les Champs Libres, in the presence of Dr Damas and director Agnès Lejeune. Or why not take part in a family floral workshop, or have a drink in the nave of the Vieux Saint-Étienne theatre, etc.