"As my body moves in space, all the other images vary, while that image, my body, remains invariable. I must, therefore, make it a center, to which I refer all the other images....My body is that which stands out as the center of these perceptions".
Henri Bergson
ABOUT
"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. life without memory is no life at all...
Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing..."
Luis Buñuel (1900–1983)
(film director - 'father of cinematic surrealism')
My name is Penelope Morout and I am a performance artist coming from a background of dance and architecture. Constantly searching to define my artistic identity in each one of these artistic fields, I have come to the understanding that, through their combination alone, will my inherent need for self-identification be fulfilled.
In September 2018, as a means to this quest, I began the Master Theatre Practices in ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, Holland. I:M is the artistic project I intend to engage with for the next two years of this programme and constitutes my first attempt to consciously incorporate research in my work. I believe that scholarly work has been a cornerstone to reconstructing my artistic practice and valuing its output in relation to my desires as well as to the overall conceptual and social framework.
My artistic practice consists of the exploration of physical movement and the use of multimedia technologies. I have always been intrigued, not only by the possibilities of the body and its movement capacities, but also by the image of the body, how movement is perceived and how this perception can be distorted with the use of technological media. I:M (Image:Memory/Movement - I aM) is an artistic research project, with which I aspire to invoke tools and skills from my artistic practice, in order to investigate the intrinsic relationship existing between the mind and the body and, therefore, between memory and movement.
THE PROJECT
Memory constitutes the threshold between remembering and forgetting, between subjectivity and objectivity and therefore is an indispensable and ever-growing subject in contemporary culture and in the art field. The affiliation of memory with both cognition and imagination has become a source of inspiration and further reflection in regards to my own research project.
"The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion that drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train".
Marcel Proust
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