Mnemosine.02

The project will focus on representing the individual's personal memory, and the colonizing influence upon it of personal and historical events, as well as the impact of technological innovations. The work will confront both performer and audience with his or her own memory, its failures, and the reinvention of one's self through the selective memory of events.

The project will emerge through exploration of personal history and the mechanisms used to construct it. The aim is to research a type of language that questions the role of both spectator and performer. In how many different objects is our personal memory deposited and discharged? How does the structure affect the work on stage? Are there conscious or unconscious limits to artistic representation?
Mnemosine 01 focused on the concept of an individual's personal memory portrayed on stage, in which personal incidents jostle with history and technological progress. Both performer and audience are confronted with their own personal memories, their memory failures and the nature of reinvention based on the selective recall of events.

In Mnemosine 02 – the second phase – thel focus lies on the performer's memory of historical events that were experienced via digital media, Internet, cable, video etc. The selected moments were chosen on the basis of personal recollection, while the research behind the performance involved use of multimedia such as google, youtube, digital radio files etc. The remembered events occurred in places where the performer lived, or which she visited. As a whole, the piece draws on the understanding that over the last 20 years, our capacity to remember has been profoundly affected by the incorporation of externalized memory, which itself affects the way the original events took place. For Mnemosine 02 MEDEA_73 worked jointly with Performing Pictures, in the production of many of the videos used on stage, and Performing PIctures' "Mirror Box" is used as an installation on stage. In addition, German artist Phillip Gabriel, has created the photographs and the final audiovisual design.

Idea and direction: Lorena Briscoe
Creation: Fabian Gomez, Phillip Gabriel, Lorena Briscoe.
Mirror Box: Performing Pictures
Video: Performing Pictures & Phillip Gabriel
Photography and design: Phillip Gabriel
Performers: Fabian Gomez, Lorena Briscoe.

MEDEA_73 in partnership with Performing Pictures with support by the project GRIG funded by EU:s Culture 2000-programme