Memory at These Speeds
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Karina Roosvita
DATE 2019
MEDIUM Performance Lecture, Mixed Media Installation
Karina Roosvita
DATE 2019
MEDIUM Performance Lecture, Mixed Media Installation
EXHIBITION
Still Like a Hummingbird
23 February — 22 March 2018
Indonesia Contemporary Art Network, Yogyakarta
Still Like a Hummingbird
23 February — 22 March 2018Indonesia Contemporary Art Network, Yogyakarta
DESCRIPTION
What are the entry points from which we can talk through the ways knowledge is produced, transmitted, consumed, perpetuated? How rapidly do bodies of knowledge shape shift or eventually vanish in this culture of amnesia and speed? What gets retained, passed down, adapted or rendered obsolete and forgotten in the cultural imaginaries and historiographies of this region?
What are the entry points from which we can talk through the ways knowledge is produced, transmitted, consumed, perpetuated? How rapidly do bodies of knowledge shape shift or eventually vanish in this culture of amnesia and speed? What gets retained, passed down, adapted or rendered obsolete and forgotten in the cultural imaginaries and historiographies of this region?
Where do we begin reflecting on the complexities of oral history/tradition, the act of remembering, the question of ancestral memory, local knowledge, the limits of autoethnography, the contexts and desires of community, and the dynamics and multiplication of modernities?
In this lecture-performance, 2 women traverse the varied histories of the perceptible and imperceptible of their respective cultural backgrounds, to tell old and new stories on unresolved memory, fragmented cosmologies and the remapping of mythologies.