Participatory project, limited edition multiples (Participant ID cards), video documentation (45:00 - 60:00 when all participants have been interviewed), in progress 2007 until all participants are deceased.

This project is an updated video version of a project begun in 1975. The original piece, Estimated Date of Death, was a text/paper based project; this version consists of video interviews with approximately 100 individuals. Each person is simply recorded on video tape stating their name, date and place of birth, and their predicted date of death. Each participant is given a wallet-sized, laminated identification card that instructs their survivors to contact the project in the event of the participant's death. Upon the report of a participant's death, the video record is updated to reflect the actual date of death. The piece is intended to have participants and viewers confront their own mortality as a real event, with a real date — not as a vague abstract concept.

I have made arrangements for this project to continue after my death until all 100 participants have died or a significant time has passed so that all would have died, whether reported or not.

- drt

If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact pdd@danrtalley.com

Sample of Video	Participant's ID Card