Retrace
Retrace is a research project that explores spatial choreography through memory. Stimulated by the idea of “emergence” as described by Graham Harman in the book Object Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything, this research places an inanimate, yet discontinuous emergent entity, a situation, at the heart of the site. This very situation dominates a female human occupant, who, through movements, tries to recreate her domestic space in a weather radar.
‘We live in worlds in which the material and the mental, the experienced and the remembered, and imagined completely fuse into each other.’ (Pallasmaa, 2005)
The study dissects ways in which one remembers object-related movements that are embedded through sensory attachment and habituation; even to an extent that one is able to recreate these movements in a new space and time.
The resultant (linked below) is a video that showcases a choreography of movements catalysed by the situation in a weather radar and inflicted by the domestic memory of the female occupant.
