MNEMOSYNE CABINET -99’S SUMMER-
The name of Mnemosyne comes from the goddess of remembrance and memories from greek mythology. The project is based on a collection of memories of a certain home from artist’s childhood. It focuses explicitly on 1999 summer. The house is a Mediterranean one-story building in a big garden with orange trees, in Cyprus where he used to live. The work deals with the perception of memories, distortion of them, and how to replace the memories with other forms. The video consists of several performances. As the performances are an attempt to rebuild the house with his body, it explores intimate and political way to reconstruct a space. Each performance is dedicated to the specific parts of the house. The titles of the performances are derived and distorted from childhood memories reminding magical realism.
The titles of the performances:
-THE VINE TREES WHICH WERE CUT AFTER ONE SNAKE WAS FOUND IN THE GARDEN
-THE PORCH WHICH WAS MELTED BY HOT LONG MIDDAYS
-THE WINDOW WHERE I COULD SEE THE MOUNTAIN ONLY WHEN MY MOTHER WAS HOLDING ME UP
-THE ATTIC WHICH WAS INVADED BY SNAKES AND MONKEYS
-THE CORRIDOR WHICH WAS SHAPED BY BREEZE
The video aims to evoke parallel reading of the conflict of the two governments in Cyprus. The body and space translations create imaginaries referring to a notion of home, displacement and fear of invasion. Some models from this house accompany the video. Some parts of models are the materials that are used in the performance as well as orange peels and sunlight of a melting midday.
The text is edited from The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design partially
The name of Mnemosyne comes from the goddess of remembrance and memories from greek mythology. The project is based on a collection of memories of a certain home from artist’s childhood. It focuses explicitly on 1999 summer. The house is a Mediterranean one-story building in a big garden with orange trees, in Cyprus where he used to live. The work deals with the perception of memories, distortion of them, and how to replace the memories with other forms. The video consists of several performances. As the performances are an attempt to rebuild the house with his body, it explores intimate and political way to reconstruct a space. Each performance is dedicated to the specific parts of the house. The titles of the performances are derived and distorted from childhood memories reminding magical realism.
The titles of the performances:
-THE VINE TREES WHICH WERE CUT AFTER ONE SNAKE WAS FOUND IN THE GARDEN
-THE PORCH WHICH WAS MELTED BY HOT LONG MIDDAYS
-THE WINDOW WHERE I COULD SEE THE MOUNTAIN ONLY WHEN MY MOTHER WAS HOLDING ME UP
-THE ATTIC WHICH WAS INVADED BY SNAKES AND MONKEYS
-THE CORRIDOR WHICH WAS SHAPED BY BREEZE
The video aims to evoke parallel reading of the conflict of the two governments in Cyprus. The body and space translations create imaginaries referring to a notion of home, displacement and fear of invasion. Some models from this house accompany the video. Some parts of models are the materials that are used in the performance as well as orange peels and sunlight of a melting midday.
The text is edited from The Auto-Ethnographic Turn in Design partially
