Playing with a Memory | Theoretical Insight
Playing with a Memory | Theoretical Insight
Our memories about different places and people always fade way as the years go by. Our images and thoughts loose the colours as the years go by. What was once a good memory all filled with precise details [ a room with all corners, subjects, facts, positions of the spoon, the knife, the fork on the table ] reaches a peak momentum where it starts to fade to grey.
The memory then is never the precise duplicate of the original. It is the continual act of creation and re-creation. Dream images come as products from this creative process. Therefor, an open playground. We can play with our memories. We do classify them. Modify them. Re-articulate. Change their context. Misuse them. We are impressed by the memory as when we feel nostalgia after we can recall only a impression of a crucial event in our life.
Memories recreate in our thoughts. Sometimes even our brains are about to burst, and we are in a different time-space, where the intense memento re-shapes itself. The memento becomes the mirage – the not so clear picture of how our past moment looked like. Mirage is when you are see your face mirrored in a pool of water. You are not the exact copy reversed like as if you were looking at yourself in a mirror, but the picture is vivid. A memory is something like that – not the exact copy of real life, but it’s there.
Memory and Nostalgia in This City Knows
This City Knows is a web-project where we want to, and we also invite you, to extract from the creative processes in your mind. We want to articulate your revival of your city life, thus (1) create authentic and new cultural memories that will mark our time, (2) we shall not confiscate memories – we will rather preserve them, let them mingle with the collective memories of our cities.
Some memories will stimulate somebody’s nostalgia for a particular place, specific experience, or a time of their lives when they really enjoyed a venue that is no longer them. Only then, through the memories we can tap into the subversive powers of the nostalgia. A voyage made of memories that we share virtually here at This City Knows is a way out for the past, present and future to fuse together in the nowness.
Imagine a Big Balloon
It’s a noble job to preserve the individual memories of people about places. For example, once you are at some city square you can sense a big balloon that stands heave and floats somewhere above the urban realms. Imagine this balloon full of memories from different people, and it is there – you can feel it with your mind every time you are in awe of a new place your visit. The balloon holds so much [holds love, hatred, political conflicts, international affairs, scandals, demonstrations, edits, celebrations, kids screaming on a Merry-Go-Round, festival, that really nice coffee, that woman’s green hat, a bird…] – you add up personally on your balloon. Imagine how all your thoughts go there in the balloon as you pass by a city centre. Your mind is part of the collective mind. What if you could access this mind?
There you go. It could be something you can share for THIS CITY KNOWS! Welcome at our platform!
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