“To Plant a Person” is an artistic, relational, and philosophical project exploring death as a seed, burial as planting, and dying as growing. It reframes the end of life as a natural, nurturing process (“bathing in landscape”) rather than just fear or loss, exploring how to “water” a person and what grows from disappearing
Plant a Person was initiated by Cristina Maldonado as part of her research project Invisible Bonds: Performativity of Death in the Everyday, within the frame (UN) COMMON Spaces of IN SITU. It was initially researched in the Czech Republic in collaboration with Michal Salwinski and Eszter Koncz, and its first work in progress was presented in Au bout du Plongeoir in 2022.
What Cristina Does 