memory
lines
Memory Lines is a piece that explored involuntary memory and its relation to sensory stimuli in the external environment, through interactive threads that were suspended across a space.
Each thread represented and acted as a trigger, revealing an assortment of memories when touched, changing dependent on pressure and placement of the touch.
The piece began as a game with a fellow resident of the Field Kitchen Academy, asking them to recite memories that arose to a dictaphone, as they walked around the grounds we were both staying in.
These dictaphone memories were then unspooled through fragmented audio loops assigned at random, via Max MSP, to the threads within the space.
These fragments never revealed the full memory - allowing people who interacted with the work to explore whatever links arose in their own minds - and also bringing an abstracted past, physically into the present.
Possible visual cues in the surrounding environment were documented through photography that lined the perimeter of the space (samples shown below).
This piece was made over the course of a few days on a scholarship at The Field Kitchen Academy (2020).
Many thanks to Eva Macali, Brad Nathan and Charlotte Colemant.