Sponsored by:

Flintridge Foundation, Portland Art Center, Willamette Week, Full Sail, DaVinci Wine, Salvador Mollys, Wild Abandon, New American Art Union

Live photos by Basil Childers.

Are ye not very ripe for the sermon of death?

The Resurrectory is a performance facility that investigates the nature of death and decomposition, and that conducts research about the illegal trafficking and sale of cadavers in Portland, Oregon, and Edinburgh, Scotland. When in operation, Resurrectory staff re-commit murders on a regular basis in order to learn more about the victims, their assailants and the medical schools that purchase the cadavers. During each performance, research about the crimes and their historic locations is presented by physical actors, recorded by research staff, interpreted for visitors by the Resurrectory docent and entered into public record. Simultaneously, a Resurrectory anatomist and four musicians present a musical lecture on the process of death and decomposition for students and visitors in the operating theater.

Visitors have described the Resurrectory as clinical yet grotesque, minimal yet gaudy, grave yet roguish. Is the Resurrectory a court? a hospital? a museum? No two visitors see it in quite the same light.

The Resurrectory was most recently available for viewing at the Portland Art Center from May 4–June 18, 2005.

For more information, contact us via e-mail or phone at 503 890 2993.

©2012 Liminal Performance Group / P.O. Box 40353, Portland, Oregon 97240-0353 / Founded in 1997 / info [at] liminalgroup [dot] org / Join our mailing list.