VA 505/Address Studio Creative Practice

How do we distort our memories and how we remember them? Why do we remember colours/events/things incorrect and how do we associate with reality through our memories? Is remembering possible? If we were able to ‘remember’, we would remember events exactly how they were, but I believe I am with Chris Marker in this case: we do not remember, we rewrite memories. Chris Marker has a monologue in his cult documentary “Sans Soleil”,  “I’ll have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not opposite of forgetting, but rather it's the inner lining. We don’t remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten.” (Marker, 1983) As an (not) opposite word of remembering, forgetting is an annoying fact of life. According to Richard Morris, forgetting is a necessary part of the memory. The brain forms memories. Brain forms some representations even it isn’t completely accurate, and memory is happening automatically. Brain has a number of diff...

Mostly my interests take form around visual expressions. I think visually. I have to see the stage while I am listening to a concert, I can't even close my eyes during the performance. I need visual contact. I imagine while I read, also that's why I am a daydreamer. Even though I know these "visual thinker, kinetic thinker, etc" generalizations are embraced by marketers, who design campaigns to reach targets, I still believe there is differences between thinking like musicians. Musicians think in a different level, their left and right side of brain work very actively. As a visualizer, I mostly imagine a whole picture, on the contrary musicians have to read from left ro right and also from up to bottom. Neuroscientists have observed musicians' brain while they play hooked to EEGs and seen vibrant activity in the visual cortext, as well as the auditory and motor cortices of the brain. In this context, I am visualising everything intangible, nonphysical things in ...