I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的
“Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory.
Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate.
Our incantation invokes the memory.
If this festival is a venue for dissolving the hard boundaries of ourselves,
Do you feel connected or displaced?
Will your body, or your machine, hold the memory of this space?
When 4 bodies continue into the future as a single body, do we have the cultural technologies to make this harmonious?”
I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 is a live performance and installation fostered by collaborative working friendships and exchange between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan – Ming-Chieh LEE, Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, and Zi-Ping TIAN.
The artist group was first formed through an open call for the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program curated by Matt Cornell for Critical Path and C-LAB. After their global premiere in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan in 2024 the performance was remade for Liveworks and will make its Australian debut. Leaking in and around the porous spaces of Carriageworks across the festival, a cross-cultural artistic team occupies the slippery spaces between the real and the virtual, meaning and language, and body and machine.
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DATES
WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER, 8PM
THURSDAY 23 OCTOBER, 8PM
SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER, 8PM
LOCATION
LIVEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ART 2025
PERFORMANCE SPACE
CARRIAGEWORKS
245 WILSON ST
EVELEIGH, 2015, NSW
FREE ADMISSION
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CREATIVE TEAM
Collaborating Artists: LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, TIAN Zi-Ping (田子平)
Curators: M@ Cornell (for Critical Path). Cicia WANG (for C-LAB)
Producer: WU Dar-Kuen (for C-LAB), Agnès Michelet (for Critical Path)
Creative Graphics: Liury LIU
Spatial Sound Composer: DEAN Chi-You
Sound Executive: SHYU Li-Hsin
Videographer: LI Yi-Cheng, Marbo WU, YANG Yao-Zhen
First Stage Sound Recording: WU Jia-Jiun, CHENG Yung-Hsin, HSIEH Hsien-Te
Second Stage Sound Recording: The Mattmosphere
Project Manager for C-LAB: Cindy LIN
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Commissioned by Performance Space for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2025 and presented by Performance Space and Critical Path.
This project has been supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principle arts investment and advisory body, the Cultural Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Sydney, and the Playking Foundation.
Original development initiated by Critical Path and supported by Creative Australia, Cultural Division – Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre, Taiwan Living Arts Foundation, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab – C-LAB, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, U108, Future Vision Lab and Taiwan Sound Lab.
IMAGE CREDIT: Body Data Loop, at U108, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, 2024, photo: David Chen, courtesy of C-LAB.
IMAGE ID: Three performers stand side-by-side with arms stretched out towards each other. Behind them is a large projection of one of the performers with arms and hands stretched out and magnified to a more-than-human scale.
Critical Path respectfully acknowledges the Gadigal and Birrabirragal people of the Eora Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the organisation is based.