Moving Memory

Move inside your mind

How do we remember the place of the self, the landscape of the mind, by moving inside them? Moving Memory uses AR to enhance the way that Jaume Plensa’s sculpture Alchemist invites you to contemplate what it means to be you, offering an enclosure that is both interior and exterior, public and private, calling attention to embodied subjectivity while being inside a person comprised of numbers and symbols that refer to objective methods of quantifying experience.

When you step into Alchemist and begin the AR experience, you hear music and see playful, nonbinary animated figures performing motion-captured choreography questioning internal and external senses of self. Because Alchemist is a popular place to take selfies, the AR interaction invites you to reflect on and contribute your insights about what you intend to remember. You’re invited to mirror or respond to the choreography of the avatars in poses or dance. A prompt suggests you take a selfie to keep private or choose to post to social media.