Body Count: Museum of Lost Souls

Abstract

Humans have an inherent desire for remembrance and containment of memory. These memories shape our representation of the past, and consequently guide our experiences in to the future. However memories are mobile in nature while it is 'remembrance' that oscillates from a localized to a generic understanding. These phenomena are not simply in conflict, but exist in a state of 'dynamic redefinition' of each other. Once activated through rituals and activity, do memories linger in space? And if they do, then can they resurface through the engagement of the user in certain performances and actions. Furthermore in the process of lingering and engagement do memories get transformed? I hypothesize that memories need extraction through objects and spaces, people and performances, through the facilitation of technology; with an understanding that: objects deteriorate, people progress, spaces evolve, performances deviate and technologies get obsolete. My investigation is regarding how architecture can contain memory that, due to its fluidity and dynamicity, will eventually change its state.