What happens when historical events float free of their bibliographic and museum anchorings?
What happens when historical events float free of their bibliographic and museum anchorings? – Symphony – The Mnemosyne Revolution is exhibited as part of An Imagined Museum, which conjures up a fictional situation in which the works of art on display are about to disappear. By familiarising themselves with pieces by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois and Isa Genzken, members of the public are invited to preserve them in their memory and create their own ‘imagined museum’. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration with the Tate Liverpool and MMK Frankfurt. – Responding to the curatorial vision of its host, this new commission of Symphony proposes a future condition in which humans, immersed by digital technology, are prompted to relearn how to create meaning out of sense experience and emotion. This artwork is not a singular thing. Symphony consists of the potential sensory exchange between two museum visitors. Being moved by instructions from headphones, visitors are trained to internalise their memories of the exhibition and to observe induced, yet felt, body sensations in the process of experiencing art.
