DESCRIPTION:
No Death No Fear (Work in process) by Dead Skeletons. Written and recorded by Ryan Carlson van Kriedt & Jón Sæmundur 2016.
Video & Art by Nonni Dead.
Video installation for Psiconauta at the José Clemente Orozco Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Additional footage and music from the film Day of the Dead (1957)

Duality is a concept of our era. We live in Nahui-Ollin - the sun of movement-, the union of four suns meet in a center which is everything. In Nahui-Ollin gods retain a duality. The same Quetzalcoatl –the creator god– shares a duality of light/dark with his brother Tezcatlipoca.
Ollin is also a very powerful symbol. Or rather transfinite. It represents orbicular, cyclical movement. Reportedly, the constancy of it, prevails our present, puts souls in an eternal return. Hence the most important of all these dualities is life and death.
According to prehispanic cultures of Mexico, the myth of creation describes how the first humans were created from the bones of the dead. Beings of dead ages, who incarnated from the land - the underworld - to liven the planet.
This is perhaps the oldest worldview created in Mexico over death. We worship that other duality, and people who transmute to get to it too, because we know that someday we will be there. The popular custom of making offerings to the dead at this time dates back some three thousand years. Even, it's said that Mexican has lived and slept with death for a long time ago, in a constant duality.
But to lead us with lightness through the preparation for death, it is essential to use the ritual. The ritual as a sharp reminder, and as a psico-dramatic technique to raise, to the point of ecstasy and harmony, a proverbial statement pronounced for centuries: "He who fears death cannot enjoy life."
Text by Jaen Madrid