The MeMo Organization

The MeMo Organization MeMo is a research-based initiative that recognizes the way cultural shifts have created new relations toward death and experiences of finality.

Such change opens the door to more personal, relevant and contemporary experiences of death. The MeMo Cabinet distills research ranging over a wide field into a collection of tools which facilitate a series of intimate narratives voiced by characters struggling in various ways with mortality. Research areas include the recent medicalization and banishment of death & mourning from public experience

, the emergence of hospice care, the funeral industry & the green burial movement, the impact of new digital & biological technologies & a growing desire for increased meaning in the service of the dying self.

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Chicago, IL

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The cabinet was installed on the 4th floor lobby at the Chicago Cultural Center and ran alongside Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris Collection exhibition between January and July 2012. Concept, story, drawing & modelmaking by Jessica Charlesworth www.jessicacharlesworth.com MeMo Identity, typeset, booklet layout by Romain Andre: www.romainandre.com/ Presented by Michael Graham of Balloon Contemporary: www.ballooncontemporary.com

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