Final Moments: A research performance about COVID-19 by Daphne Lei

4000 Mesa Road,Irvine CA 92697-2775

31 March, 2022

Description

FINAL MOMENTS is about exploring the questions of "What's on your mind at the final moments?" and "Who will be with you?" What’s on your mind at the final moments? Who will be with you? As COVID-19 is still ravaging the world, taking many lives too fast and too early, these are some of the unanswerable gnawing questions that keep stressing us. How do you know this moment is final? Can you prepare for it? COVID-19 has changed our understanding of the final moments. A pandemic is more than illness and death of individuals; it is also about humanity of the world. FINAL MOMENTS is a research and performance project about the pandemic with an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach. FINAL MOMENTS is about exploring the meanings of the very term, about redefining humanity from various perspectives such as medicine, education, race, gender, social economic status, art, and ecology. FINAL MOMENTS is about telling a story with poetry, sound, light, touch, music, movements, and drama. FINAL MOMENTS is about living, healing, and finding light in the darkest times. Co-sponsored by The Institute for 21st Century Creativity (21C) Special thanks to Department of Medicine, and Internal Medicine, UCI Health