If mediatization has surprisingly revealed the secret life of inert matter and the face of things the flipside of this has been the petrification of living organisms an invasion of stone bodies in a state of suspended animation. Within a contemporary imaginary pervaded by new forms of animism the paradigm of death looms large in many areas of artistic experimentation pushing the modern body towards mineral modes of being which revive ancient myths of fleshmadestone and the issue of the monumen