Status Updates From Urban Lament: Collective Ex...

"We will also make use of the air in the room by moving it around, so it is recommended that each of us brings in enough air. There will be 2 doors in the room: The Gate of Air and the Gate of Tears. As for the water, it will surround us from the beginning, and by the end we will have to accept it. Swimming skills are completely unnecessary. The skill of opening one's eyes underwater is better."

"Seremetakis underlines the importance of 'acoustic violence' as manifested through the screaming voice. As she suggests, 'screaming [for] the dead' counters the isolation of death, in the sense that 'the voice of the mourner supplements the silence of the corpse'."