Carrie Fisher’s ashes carried in Prozac-shaped urn - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38541220
Carrie Fisher has been laid to rest alongside her mother Debbie Reynolds at a private service where her ashes were carried in an urn shaped like a Prozac pill.
Following the joint funeral service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, Todd Fisher said the giant pill in the shape of the anti-depressant drug was chosen as the urn for his sister’s ashes because it was one of Carrie’s “favourite possessions”.
“She loved it, and it was in her house, and Billie [Carrie Fisher’s daughter] and I felt it was where she would want to be,” he said.
ah zut, je pensais que c’était ses directives, une manière de provocation, pas très claire en fait, que j’interprétais comme un : j’ai du prendre des pilules toute ma vie, bande cons, now eat this...
Me faisait un peu penser au boulot de #general_idea dans les années 90, qui ont fait de la #pilule / #gélule une sorte de fantôme/reflet de leur vie avec le SIDA :
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Idea
With Partz and Zontal’s AIDS diagnoses, the group continued to address the AIDS crisis in various ways. [...] The medical/pharmacological realities of daily coping with the disease also appeared in General Idea’s work. The pill entered into the group’s visual vocabulary, iterated and reiterated in various formats: as helium-filled balloons (a foil version of which was an appropriation Andy Warhol’s silver balloons), as a sculptural object of various dimensions (the group created large-scale installations illustrating Partz’s and Zontal’s AZT intake) and as a backdrop, featured in one of the group’s self-portraits, Playing Doctor (1992),