FLEETING REMEMBRANCE, ERRONEOUS IMAGE
Performance (50 min) at MUCEM (Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean), Marseille, France 2020
Performance, visuals, text: Nermine El Ansari
Sound creation, music: Adam Switala
Video editing: Piotr Pawlus
“Fleeting remembrance, erroneous image” is a visual and sound experiment that features a series of drawings representing personal childhood memories associated with images from the Internet. This association of images punctuated by vocal and sound interventions evokes a narration between individual memory and collective memory. The stage plays the role of an echo chamber of thought and memory where inner resolutions are projected outwards. The spectator is transported to an eclectic world confronting his own memories.
“In the middle of the Arab Spring, I was living in Cairo, Egypt, where a succession of curfews was put in place because of the numerous demonstrations. In the summer of 2013, the curfew was set from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. for a period of three months. During this restriction, I imposed an exercise to do every day. The exercise consists of remembering a childhood memory before age ten and redrawing it exactly as it is perceived. When it all falls apart, returning to memories is a form of resistance against outside forces that manipulate your own rhythm of time. Return to a place beyond time, memory. This series of drawings form the main tool of this show “Fleeting remembrance, erroneous image“.
The piece also includes sound compositions by Kristinn Gunnar Blondal.
The text is the result of collaborative work with the artists: Erla Þórarinsdóttir, Hulda Vilhjálmsdóttir, Lilja Birgisdóttir, Karlotta Blöndal, Steingrimur Eyfjord, Kristinn Már Pálmason, Amy Tavern, Nino Bilikhodze, Annalisa Fulvi, Elsa Lefebvre, Mar Cuervo Perez, Thomas Dupal, Robert Clark, Héba Farid, Mariam Elias, Amy Arif, Paul Geday, Ahmed Nosseir, Sherif El Azma, and Ahmed Badry.
