For 20 days, in May 2021, I committed to work every day on a site specific series of works at Articulate Project Space in Sydney, responding to the place, evolving with time and interactions. In a John Cage’s spirit,  who stated  “Life without structure is unseen. Pure life expresses itself within and through a structure”, I aimed to let the project unfold in an open creative process within specific parameters of time, space and engagement.[1]

 I documented this transient and evolutive project, in a continuous video work,  Fluid Memory. This uncut video was made on the last day of the project. I am offering in this film a souvenir of the experience, a particular nebulous visual story that can be accessed in many ways by the viewer. 

I have worked on Fluid Memory over the whole duration of the project, diverting “Zoom” communication platform into a creative medium. I filmed what was happening daily in the space, layering each day, generating a moving visual collage that merges space, time and actions. In the way our memory is made out of fragments of events and experiences constructing our personal history, this artwork presents a moving mashed-up entity of project occurrences: Past and present, digital/analogue spaces and actions coalesce into a fluid visual artwork. In the process, I compose the image and play with the software which eventually selects what is revealed in the final film. After days of experimentations with the medium, the experience has become a collaboration with the digital tool. Over time, some events appeared, some others disappeared. “Fluid Memory” is a window into the experience of “Open to Contingencies-Invitation to Possibilities” project.

[1] John Cage, Silence: Lectures and writings, (Middeltown Connecticut: Wesleyan University press: 1967), 1