Exhibition	epitaph project: 1995 -
Artist(s)	Burstein, Joyce
Title	epitaph project: 1995 -
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Year	2006
Decade(s)	2000s
Exhibition Dates	2006 June 17 - August 31
Description	Joyce Burstein began the epitaph project in 1995 by securing a mortgage for a plot at Hollywood Forever, a notable and historic cemetery adjacent to Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The public artwork exists as a tombstone carved from slate like a chalkboard and is accompanied by a bronze box containing chalk. Passersby are invited to write an epitaph on the stone, and then she collects these sometimes profound or irreverent compositions with a photograph. The project has extended into a multi-media presentation in the Bolsky Gallery and a forthcoming book with an essay by Peter Lamborn Wilson that enlists the help of all spectators in a process of self-discovery about death and life, as one does not exist without the other.
Catalog	yes
Gallery	Bolsky Gallery
Media	Video Installation
ImageID	rep-exh-tmp
Collection	Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive