Before I Die
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Created by the artist @CandyChang, the Before I Die project is a memento mori for the modern age. See also: @RitualFields
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Joined February 2012
Thank you to everyone who has supported the Before I Die project! This station is on hiatus. For more projects and notes on ritual in public space, please visit @CandyChang and/or tune into @RitualFields.
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There’s a new Before I Die wall in China! “Before I die I want to... wait for the wind and you, eat eat eat, make a difference, see my daughter’s dreams come true,” from Shanghai on Mogan Shan Road, thanks to Wang ZhengDao and friends.
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Scene from Puebla, Mexico: “Before I Die I want to be a good father.”
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The increasingly urgent desire for concentration in these days of distraction.
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Dispatches from Richmond, Virginia: Before I die I want to forget about myself. I want to understand my dad (and he me). I want to live slowly. I want to write letters to everyone I love. I want to go deep into the mysteries of my own soul. I want to eat peanut butter again.
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Heavy Rotation: William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops. Six hours of grace reverberating from a haunted reel-to-reel machine. “Our world is in a bad feedback loop right now," said Basinski. "It’s not gonna be pretty but eventually things will resolve."
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William Basinski · album · 2014 · 2 songs
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“Before I die I want to... right all my wrongs, end racism,” from Brooklyn, NY
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Erupting out of Freedom Park in Lagos, Nigeria: “Before I die I want to... become a great surgeon, make my mother proud, be an enabler of success, set souls on fire with my words and actions.”
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A wall in Dhaka, Bangladesh: “Before I die I want to make my mother tear up with pride once again.”
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Report from Springfield, Missouri: "Before I die I want to go on an archaeological dig. Go to college. Walk without my cane. Change a life."
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A Before I Die response from Brooklyn is back in the streets thanks to Art in Ad Places: https://t.co/pNA219hnsl
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In the courtyard of a church in Australia, a wall is returned to a tabula rasa for another collection of desires, anxieties, and dreams.
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Desires that read like a hymn: I want to stop wanting. I want to forgive myself. I want to face death without fear. I want to be ready.
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Meanwhile in the city of Long Beach, a man gets down on his knees and wishes for a second chance.
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Counterpoint from the Earl of Shaftesbury: “We polish one another, and rub off our corners and rough sides by a sort of amicable collision.”
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"We are like hedge-hogs clustering together for warmth," said Schopenhauer. "Uncomfortable when closely packed yet miserable when apart."
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A dispatch from the International Youth Hostel in Xiamen, China: "Before I die I want to fill my soul."
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A dream from Shanghai: "Before I die I want to travel through space and look through galaxies."
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“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death,” writes Spinoza. “And his wisdom is a meditation not on death, but on life.”
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"Forgive" is a common response on the walls, which brings to mind Oscar Wilde: "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
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