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Sala-Manca Group (Israel)
Over Memory*
Documentation as a "flea." Memory as an item. Memory creation as a purpose in itself - dialogue with the overflow
of documentation (in art, tourism, family events). You are documented, therefore you are. Documentation instead
of performance. The artistic act (documentation) is completed before the action (the biennial) begins, and only
its memory and the spectator's action remain: watching the memory of the action as a reconstruction of the city
and the artistic action.
Documentation of seemingly irrelevant aspects of history and place memory structuring, in an attempt to create
poetics of the city's Over Memory.
"Over Memory - Jaffa" is the first in a series of archival works dedicated to the construction of Over Memory
archives of different cities.
* The concept Over Memory, coined by the
Portuguese scholar Joao Delgado, refers to areas in individual
and collective memory that are conceived as meaningless
and purposeless even though they are central to pertinent
mapping. See: Maure, A., "Paradigma de la memoria y sobrememoria
- Bocetos para una arqueologia del olvido en el cerebro
de la mosca", Ruptura Nro. 123, 1993, pp. 23-28
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