MEMORY HOLE

Description:

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They don’t exist. They are these short bursts, spaces clipped from another dimension, folding through vibrating walls, seeping across matter and anti-matter. They are the unfamiliar familiar, constructed as we speak, traversing levels of regression into confusion and opacity, a Memory Hole.

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The installation Memory Hole was developed during a three-month residency at Fonden FABRIKKEN for Kunst and shown in a disused shop at Amager Centret in Copenhagen. The site itself evoked the liminal zones and shifting voids that surround us as physical and cognitive structures are moved into the cloud, replaced by data centers, or left to decay. The installation repurposes remnants of the shop, incorporating detritus like mannequins, signs, and Christmas trees. The work merges with these leftover traces of commerce, forming something unstable and in-between.

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At its center, a self-generating video slips between synthetic landscapes and a hacked animatronic toy monkey. The monkey, perched on its cage, hosts fictional travels through melting cartoon imagery, guided by a local language model producing live scripts and edits in the moment. The video cycles between datasets and prompts, building a space that hovers at the edge of recognition. Synthetic images reminiscent of early 2000s digital cameras are teased into new forms, with animations from different eras and continents melding together and collapsing into a false nostalgia where the everyday becomes augmented, and malleable.

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Memory Hole speaks to the deletion, extraction, and manipulation of memory by artificial agents, tracing and performing the shifting of recall and perception from the tangible to something blurred and elusive.​