Limited Human Lifespan – Finitude and Visual Arts. Time is Money?

Our death sets an individual limitation to our life. This turns time into our most valuable resource and one of the greatest mysteries of human life. Assisted dying is a way to impose a self-fabricated limitation to one’s lifetime as well as being a response to the seemingly limitless extensions of the lifespan that modern medicine is working toward. As such, it resists the promise of immortality but also contributes to save millions in health care spending thereby freeing up resources for other pursuits. As several countries have legalized assisted dying, we want to ask how this way of dying changes our relationship to time.

Anna Elsner will be in conversation with mathematician Josef Teichmann (ETH), artist Sinzo Aanza, physicist Caroline Dorn (ETH) and business psychologist Jamie Gloor (HSG).

This conversation is part of the discursive program of events as part of the Zeit/Time exhibition at Kunsthaus Zurich, curated by Cathérine Hug.