f44(0)

interactive multimedia installation with marco borowski, 2023

the collaborative project "f44(0)" deals with the relationship between the processing of memories and the mechanisms of trauma and dissociation. as part of the project, an interactive installation was developed in which two different types of lost memories are approached: the projection showed random moments that would have been forgotten, if they had not been accidentally preserved on video in juxtaposition to an experimental videowork, which translates the inner process of the fragmentation and loss of memories that, on the contrary, were too intrusive to be kept at all and therefore split off from consciousness.

projected on a lamella curtain, the video-projection would be fragmented on two levels. visitors then could move the lamellas of the curtain to order these two types of lost memories. while interacting with the material, recipients can explore the principle of memory loss in both, dissociative and everyday-life contexts, in a playfully-experimental way. this interactiveness offers them also a frame to reflect on their own handling of crises and memories. through that, dissociation can no longer be understood merely as an „illness“, but as a continuum.