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EMIL HRVATINâS MEMORY CABINETS Marina Grzinic Camillo memo 4.0: The Cabinet of MemoriesâA Tear Donating Session, live installation by Emil Hrvatin, Ljubljana Museum, Slovenia, September 1998. M emory is a matter of time continuity, of having clearly the past, present, and future in synch with our bodies. Due to the Internet and computerized culture, it seems we have lost the past, and the future has meanwhile disappeared somewhere in cyberspace. In the instantaneous and obsessive (tele)presence that we live in today, accessing the Web and receiving audio/video streams, we are no longer in synch with the âstuff â of memory, and therefore memory is waiting to be reappropriated or reinvented, when the time comes. Renaissance master of the art of memory, Giulio Camillo (1480â1544). Hrvatinâs project is an extremely intelligent way of questioning the value of memory. In The Cabinet of Memories the visitor/ participant/memory retriever has the possibility to enter three rooms/boxes/ cabinets: those of Individual Memory, of Collective Memory, and, if nothing works out, the participant is asked to enter the Cabinet of Physiological Memory. In the Cabinet of Individual Memory, a celestial blue satin-covered room/box/ cabinet (1 x 1.2 x 2m big), there is only
PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art – MIT Press
Published: May 1, 2002
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