This project is the media component that informs the written part of the dissertation titled, A Question of Memory: Constructing an Artist’s Screen Memories through Video.
The project was designed to gain insights into the construction of individual and cultural memory through film and video making. Screen Memories consists of ten short individual video clips as well as an opening clip called Balloon. Screen Memories constructs childhood memories and addresses the themes memory and time, authenticity and artifice, familial territories and personal histories, as well as the sub-theme exilic identity.
I coined the term “remembering artist” to identify myself and like-minded artists such as Alan Berliner, Michelle Citron, Rea Tajiri, Elida Schogt, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury and Abraham Ravett. A remembering artist is someone who finds artistic resources in the relationship between past and present and in the psychological realm, and whose work relates to past experience through experimental documentary film and video making.
The Screen Memories blog presents the viewers with a choice as to the sequence in which they want to watch the clips, a decision that makes manifest the non-linear nature of memory work. I am no longer the arbiter of the clips’ sequence. This tactic encourages the viewer to take in the information as if looking at paintings, albeit time-based ones with a narrative, poetic, and documentary sensibility. Also, viewers may choose to watch less than the total number of clips, leaving them with a different understanding of the piece from those who choose to watch all of them.
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