The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Ave
718.482.7069
This event has passed.
- When
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Sep 8, 2010 – Sep 18, 2010
Wednesdays–Saturdays (8pm)
- Where
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- Price
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$15
- Links
- Sold Out!
“At first glance, Selective Memory seems easy enough to grasp. A woman stands plainly on a stage, obscured from the neck up by a screen projecting an outsized image of her head. She stares blankly, even forlornly. Each passing moment metes out subtle shifts in pose, light, and projection angle serving up new visual clues that often belie our previous assumptions. This woman, we come to realize, is quite literally calling the shots, from a control placed in her hand that works cameras and mics tucked into the deceptively spare set. Performed in real-time, this brilliantly confounding collaboration between Brian Rogers and the performer, Madeline Best, challenges our every perception, minute by minute. In an information-glutted world where we all breeze through bits of data, often to no clear end, Selective Memory invites us to take a few moments, sit back, and misconstrue.”
Maura Hogan, Flavorpill
Selective Memory is a real time video performance about nostalgia for relationships that never took place, events which never happened; a film which was never made, but which everyone remembers; exploiting the misappropriation of "real" sounds and images to confound, distort, remake and ultimately erase the truth.
- The Chocolate Factory
