Collective Remembering
Collective Remembering (2018) explores the mechanisms through which memories are constructed collectively as a group, and how the process leaves out certain details and validates others, giving power to the resulting version of a memory that may not be an accurate representation of what they saw, or what has happened.
The work incorporates gamification as a strategy to invite the audience into the play of remembering the structure in the virtual space composed of twenty wood-textured blocks. The task is to reconstruct the structure on a scaled-down gridded board with wooden blocks, collectively, after each person gets a chance to see it. The grid is mapped to match the physical and the virtual space that the audience navigates. The audience who has seen it can at any given time contribute to modify or adjust the structure. The instruction points out that there is a ball that is the sole interactive object in the scene; this object has no contribution to the task given.
This work was completed during the SAIC Berlin Residency Program at NYU St Agnes.