Curating a Museum of Memory: Shaping ‘Time’

This year, as we know, is of extra-ordinary breakdowns and may be some break-throughs and we thank all of you who have been a part of this journey of collective sense-making. As we near the end of the year 2020, we wanted to take a pause and spend some time in the act of collective ‘remembering’. Over the period of the pandemic, we have realised so many things, unlearnt a lot, learnt a few and perhaps, some of us have begun to see life in a different light. It is in the spirit of that celebration, that we wanted to explore what it means to curate a Museum of memory! As a part of that curation, we plan to spend a few episodes in different kinds of explorations.

In our next episode on the 29th November, 2020, we want to engage in contemplating on: What makes life worth living and what really matters at the end of the day? If you were to pick up on aspects in your life that you would like to mould, what would form your clay? What would your “mouldable” be? Why? How would you like to shape it and why would you like for it to take that certain shape? How does, not only the past shape the present, but the future too shape it? Does time have any influence in memory and does memory influence time? At the end we would also like to mull over the fallacy of the aspiration to control in uncertain times, the fallacy of controlling time itself, and the fallacy of timelessness of the futility of this attempt of human beings, where the complexities of uncertainties end up shaping us. We believe in the year 2020 when death, decay and disease become a part of our daily vocabulary that shape every aspect of our life, it is a significant moment to reflect on the nature of this ‘shaping’ of our collective consciousness and collective memory!

Over the next couple of sessions, we will delve deep into the ways of identifying and shaping in the ways of remembering ourselves and others. What do we really remember and why? What does a memory of a person really come down to? What happens to collective memory? What would one’s life come down to in someone else’s memory, or even in one’s own? Do I even want to be remembered or will the carefully crafted shape not matter once our clay is returned to the earth?

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Core Design and Production Team:
Gayathri Menon
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayathrigmenon/

Design, Concept and Creative Direction:
Sudebi Thakurata
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