ROCKFLUID. Memories; Traces; Places
A talk by visiting artist Elena Cologni
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2011
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 110
The current alienation of the individual induced by a technology dominant economy is based on an urge to cut the distance over time and space in today's communication systems. ROCKFLUID represents an attempt to investigate the context. It creates possibilities for encounters in shared physical spaces where we experience the environment through moving our body in space thus defining our places. Elena is interested in doing this by looking at psycho-geography, adopting relational tactics, and sharing the creative process with participants.
She also believes that to build an awareness of how digital time has disrupted our sense of subjective time is a key element. This can be done by breaking the accepted relation memory-past. With the current obsession over constantly documenting our lives, we may feel (and fear) that we cannot do the same with memory. By proposing that we do change our memories in the present by recollecting them, we may find in this very quality of instability of memory our 'place'.
ROCKFLUID, based on a collaboration between artist Elena Cologni and Psychologist Lisa Saksida (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) was awarded by the Arts Council of England (Grants for the Arts Escalator program) through Colchester Arts Centre. It is based at Wysing Arts Centre.
Date: Wednesday 12 October 2011
Time: 14.00
Venue: Ruskin 110
The current alienation of the individual induced by a technology dominant economy is based on an urge to cut the distance over time and space in today's communication systems. ROCKFLUID represents an attempt to investigate the context. It creates possibilities for encounters in shared physical spaces where we experience the environment through moving our body in space thus defining our places. Elena is interested in doing this by looking at psycho-geography, adopting relational tactics, and sharing the creative process with participants.
She also believes that to build an awareness of how digital time has disrupted our sense of subjective time is a key element. This can be done by breaking the accepted relation memory-past. With the current obsession over constantly documenting our lives, we may feel (and fear) that we cannot do the same with memory. By proposing that we do change our memories in the present by recollecting them, we may find in this very quality of instability of memory our 'place'.
ROCKFLUID, based on a collaboration between artist Elena Cologni and Psychologist Lisa Saksida (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge) was awarded by the Arts Council of England (Grants for the Arts Escalator program) through Colchester Arts Centre. It is based at Wysing Arts Centre.
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