i want to tell you about all the things i remember

‘I want to tell you about all the things I remember’ explores how text can take form as a representation of a memory. Memories are such a loose concept, in the way that they are not necessarily coherent or distinct, but rather blurred and ever evolving over time. A memory, when growing, is not held together by clear boundaries, but rather is like an ambient manifested in different forms.

That is what this work is about.

The feeling of a memory that is slightly out of reach but embodies in the world around you. Here, that memory is reconstructed through text in space.

In the performance, I am reconstructing a memory. One that has grown over time, it never existed in one coherent line or thought. Through the writing, I am trying to explore the various ways and forms in which this memory is held together and embodied. The work is not solely trying to activate this personal memory, but rather place the audience inside this memory. In the work, I am establishing a relation between the reconstruction of this memory and the physical space.

In the performance, the audience is invited to get insight into the memory, and in return, physically become part of it. They will be able to step into the map of this reconstruction.

The foundations of this project lie in text, and how we can explore spatiality and time through language. The performance is structured around a text —that is improvised and adapted throughout— reconstructing a memory. It is both performed on the desktop and embodied in the room through different actions of mapping, marking and engaging of an audience into this reconstruction. The work will exist after the durational performance at the 'Reflection in a Pond' Exhibition, only as records of the remembrance, and an active archive to be explored by the visitors.