memory full/memory fool statement
The theory of symbols and language is entirely related to the theory of
universe comprehension.
Speaking in essential semiotics terms, first things that mind registers
are patterns of form and color, or visual perceptions in a flat dimension,
and sounds or auditive perceptions in a lapse of time. The results of
these are inferred objects because reality is only supposed, so, technically,
this must be considered the first part when registering the perceived
reality. Interpretation starts here, converting the inferences to abstractions
and concepts, which have a different form and meaning in each mind according
to the already known world. In order to convert these concepts into symbols,
it is necessary to associate one of the perceptive paradigms with another
concept in memory. The interpretation is the process in which the observed
perceptions are joined into recognized paradigms and transformed into
meanings, which are purely association of concepts. The interpretation
is applied to all aspects of perceptive reality; it is a way of creating
a personal version of perceptive reality, with the intention of reconstructing
the actual course of events that occur in the world. A relation of symbols
is settled through a learning process by living events and associating
them in the memory. We develop a sense of functional rules of the perceived
reality through trial and error and we constantly review our own versions
of the events. This is achieved by using the scientific method by establishing
a hypothesis and gathering data to verify it. If the information supports
the hypothesis, it is considered correct but if contradicted, it must
be reviewed.
memory full/memory fool will be carried out based on these principles
of perception and interpretation. The project consists in the repetition
of a system, in which, during four days Fernando Llanos will register
in video and Enrique Greiner in audio, a peripheral trip equivalent in
each case, where the axis will be the site where the exhibition is to
take place. During these 4 days, the two artists will repeat the same
tour registering all characteristics and minutiae that give the trips
essence, each one in their own medium, capturing the visual and auditive
perceptions. On the fifth day, after qualifying and manipulating the material,
Greiner and Llanos do a live act from their portable computers interpreting
the trip in a synopsis, mixing audio and video in real time.
By taking apart the sound from the image and digitally processing it on
computers, the artists will synthesize and transform forms and sounds,
detaching them from their place in time and space, taking them as pure
visual forms and sounds without any meaning. The artists will illustrate
the way the brain functions to comprehend through this intellectual process,
and how interpretation takes place through the reconstruction of memory
(in the live act).
The result of the process will be a DVD in which Llanos and Greiner’s
interpretation of the outing will remain as a document to be exhibited
on a monitor or a projection. memory full/memory fool will take place
in different cities. The collection of the documents will register the
memory of what their minds have shared as an experience of the trip leaving
behind the absurd idea that there is only one way to perceive and that
the circumstance is what actually changes and transforms the way of seeing,
feeling and remembering a journey.
At the same time Llanos and Greiner are capturing sound and image, Francisca
Rivero-Lake will document their everyday intellectual and perceptive process.
Each day the 3 memory full/memory fool members will discuss the work development.
This will constitute a sort of break down diary where thoughts, perception
of the moment, conversations and images related to the work will constitute
an important tool for giving each performance context and giving an inside
of the process. These materials will be published together with the life
act documents into a catalogue.
One of the memory’s characteristics is its ability to change, which
means that the significance of the facts changes as time goes by, while
the facts remain. memory full/memory fool takes this game of words to
express this condition that will be exhaustively proved by Llanos’s
and Greiner’s tours in each city and the reconstruction of each excursion.
Francisca Rivero-Lake, Mayo 2002.
