Because we had to visit at least 2 museums, I thought a visit to the V&A would be ideal. The exhibition was like a walk-in book. It had illustrations and typography on the wall to tell the story which was a new fiction story written by Hari Kunzru. The story was set in the future, the worlds information infrastructure was wiped out by a magnetic storm. technology and knowledge has been lost. The narrator of the story is in prison. He is accused of being a member
of a banned sect, who has revived the ancient ‘art of memory’. They try
to remember as much of the past as they can in a future where forgetting
has been official policy for generations. The narrator uses his prison
cell as his ‘memory palace’, the location for the things he has
remembered: corrupted fragments and misunderstood details of things we
may recognize from our time. He clings to his belief that without
memory, civilization is doomed.
I feel that memories is a part of your past and it shapes your identity and who you are as an individual. This is most definitely relevant to my work as my memories is something I can research into and use as a starting point for e.g. my memories of being on holiday in turkey, or memories of being a child etc. I will then be able to abstract deeper and develop ideas from it. I liked that it was black and white and may consider this colour theme if I go choose to further explore my memories.
What I really enjoyed the most, was the interactive games that were in the exhibition. Basically there were boards where you write or draw a memory and it appears on the boards that were hung up on the wall. It was fun to note down personal memories.
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