Images are relational objects. They depict reality, create reality, and act back on reality. This intervention is based on the game "Memory" and explores different ways in which different kinds of images, physical and mental, influence our way of seeing and making the world.
Paper long abstract:
The game "Memory" aims at training your visual memory. There are different sets of 2 identical images that need to be identified and paired as the images are uncovered one by one. This intervention is taking these basic rules as a framework and expands them in multiple ways and directions, engaging the participants in a multilayered conversation that starts from and leads back to images. It is allowing to engage on both, cognitive and emotional levels, question the status of the images as reproducers, creators, and influencers of reality, and creating new unforeseen worlds and visual narratives. It is a conversation and an experimental exploration of worldmaking with and through images that allow the participants to unlearn, engage and relate. The outcome of the intervention is not pre-defined, it could be anything from a collage or a map to a performance or a video.