Gordi — live event
“She said that she watched him die on FaceTime” That poignant line – from track 10 “PVC Divide” – comes from Sophie Payten’s (aka Gordi) first hand observation working in hospitals during the pandemic. As she clocked on for a shift, a deceased patient’s family waited in the fluorescent corridor. Families weren’t allowed to visit during lockout periods, and so had to endure a cold, digital farewell; decades of memories, love, regrets, distilled to pixel. As a final year medical student, Payten learned to certify death. Beyond just what we see in the movies – checking for a pulse, hearing the monotone of a flatline, announcing the time – the process involves observing a person who’s no longer responding. As she looked at their still, waxy skin, Payten says “It made me think of plasticine – that soft, malleable substance, that we can shape and mould in our hands, until we leave it to set in place. I thought about all the ways we are like plasticine in life – how forces we can’t control, c
Starts: 2025-06-15T19:00:00Z
Ends: 2025-06-15T21:00:00Z
Where: 540 Penn Street Northeast, Washington, District of Columbia 20002, United States
Price: $32.19