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December 7th, 2024 |
Thanks, everyone, for making this year's event super successful!
Olga Ast
SkeptiCamp NYC Profile
| Biography: |
I’m an interdisciplinary artist, curator and independent scholar. One of my main goals is to investigate connections between time, space and information. I have exhibited and lectured in the U.S. and abroad, presenting my work at art-science projects, including art shows and multidisciplinary conferences at Rutgers, New York, Gottingen, Moscow, Toronto and other universities; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the National Academy of Sciences; the Museum of Natural Sciences of Turin; the Bridges Math Art exhibit and the International Conferences on Time Perspectives.
My books include Fleeing from Absence: four cross-disciplinary essays on time, its nature and its interpretations; and Infinite Instances: Studies & Images of Time, a collection of papers and artworks by contributors to the ArcheTime project, which I have been curating since 2009. |
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New York |
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| Proposed Session Title: |
Un/forgettable, un/desirable, … A participatory exercise in a contemporary art creative process. |
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| Session Description: |
I propose a ‘surprise’ interactive collaborative participatory installation-performance-poem that is to be created by the visitors at one of the Out of the Box events at the Bowery Poetry Club.
Members of the audience will be asked to right down in a few words something memorable on a piece of paper and put it in one of the two open boxes (or other available containers), one of which is for memories that people would like to keep and another one is for memories they would like to forget.
At the end of the event all 'desirable’ good memories are to be read aloud in accidental order as a ‘Communal poem’ (or ‘Collage poem’) with ‘multiple authorship’ and unpredictable results.
All ‘undesirable’ bad memories are to be ritually destructed in a ceremony in a manner that depends on what is feasible in the space. Before placing ‘bad’ memories in the box their originators could cross or black them out and/or tear paper into small pieces.
As an improvisational collaborative and performative undertaking this work is very flexible and could be modified and adapted to almost any requirements. I plan to finalize all elements, including a title, after consulting with the project organizers/curators.
The first installment of this project was presented at the Fallacious Memory exhibition in May-June 2024 in the UK (https://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/memory and https://www.fringeartsbath.co.uk/events-2024/2024/5/13/ritualdestruction) as a part of the Archetime project that I have been working on since 2009 (https://www.archetime.net)
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| Previous SkeptiCamp NYC Events: |
2021, 2020, 2019 |