Blackbox - Record

Continuing on the theme of Memory from Black Box / (COLAB 1) in the fall, students in Black Box (COLAB 2) were asked to create three performances to form a triptych. The first part of the triptych titled RECORD, the second work titled REWIND + REPLAY and the last work, an installation called RECALL. Each work aims to explore the act of recording, rewinding, replaying and recalling our memories both within the context of text, movement, sound and design.  Inspired by our obsession to be remembered, to understand our own story and the world around us, we gathered ideas from the source material of the Golden Record, Janet Cardiff’s Opera for a Small Room, the work of Ant Farm’s time capsules, the memory of mankind project by Michael Kunz, the musings of James Baldwin on memory and the line in Macbeth “To the last syllable of recorded time.” We looked at artists who work with memory as a central theme to their work, as well as artists who incorporate film in their work to create a tightly choreographed live-cinema, who use the pressure of the camera on the actors body as a close-up to the ephemeral, the visceral nature of our shared human condition.