Special Screening “Children Who Won’t Die, ARAKAWA” November 3, 2016 7:00 p.m. 264 Canal Street, 3W, New York, New York Free admission Triple Canopy is pleased to present a screening of Children Who Won’t Die (2010). Directed by Nobu Yamaoka and scored by composer Keiichiro Shibuya, the documentary is a meditation on the work of Japanese artist Arakawa and his efforts, with his wife and creative partner Madeline Gins, to “reverse destiny” and free humanity from the necessity of death. Arakawa, who died in 2010, and Gins, who died in 2014, advocated for their singular vision of immortality through works of visual art, philosophical and poetic writings, and architecture. Considering the lived environment to be of the utmost importance to their project, the duo designed housing using esoteric principles they called “architectural procedures,” such as “biotopological scale-juggling” and “tentativeness cradling.” The resulting spaces are meant to simultaneously expand inhabitants’ physical capacities and challenge their intransigent modes of thought. As Arakawa and Gins write in Making Dying Illegal (2006), living in such a “tactically posed surround/tutelary abode” is “an all-out effort to go on living,” and, in their view, an ethical mandate for all of humanity. Juxtaposing the duo’s utopic transhumanism