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Begin the process of legally donating your body to an ecological art project.

MASS BODY

An ecological project dedicated to the artistic study of human decomposition.

A legally structured afterlife body donation program — an alternative to donating your body to science.

MASS BODY emblem: two entwined figures, skin rendered as mineral pattern

Architecture

Your body will be placed above ground inside a controlled pavilion, architecturally designed to embody the circumference of a petri dish. Visitors witness the different stages of your body’s decomposition in plein-air through the duration of several weeks.
Render of the MASS BODY pavilion: a circular ceramic-tiled shell with an entry ramp, set in an autumn meadow before wooded mountains

Death is the most fundamental
human process. Yet in recent
history, it has become one from
which we have abstracted away
any personal experience.

Mass Body is a pavilion and
human remains donation program
that seeks to reestablish an
intimate, contemplative
experience of decomposition in a
controlled outdoor setting.

Sculpted petri dish: colonies of microbial growth inside a beaded ceramic rim

Support

Mass Body long sleeves $100 each · Available now

Every shirt funds the next stage of the project.

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