Hello Death is an unscripted audio and sound performance created in response to the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, when death became simultaneously omnipresent and abstracted. Rather than documenting events, the piece stages an intimate conversation with Death itself, treating it as a relational presence rather than a statistic. The work reflects on the quiet aftermath of catastrophe — how we continue living alongside loss, uncertainty, and mortality after the rupture has already occurred. Positioned within Writing After, the piece considers poetry as a form of witnessing that resists spectacle, choosing intimacy, slowness, and address as modes of remembrance.
The project is part of the subtheme Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss.
Author
Madhulika Mohan
Madhulika Mohan (b. 1995) is an Indian poet and conceptual artist whose work explores how language responds to rupture, uncertainty, and transformation. Working with experimental forms, sound-led writing, and instruction-based poetics, she treats poetry as a system for meaning-making and repair rather than resolution. Her practice spans performance, visual language, and constraint-based writing, and has been presented internationally, including at MICA, Joan Prats Gallery, and MACBA. She is currently based in Munich.
