Extinct memories

Opening on Thursday February 5 at 5pm

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Following a first collaborative work set in Shanghai in 2012, Gregory Chatonsky and Dominique Sirois continue their reflection during an in situ residency at LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE from January 13 to March 1. The opening will take place on February the 5th 2015. The human specie has disappeared (an unavoidable reality according to many). A new form of life lands on earth seeking to understand what we were, what was our culture. In the random archaeological diggings these explorers uncover a server’s farm. Such is Chatonsky and Sirois’ work proposition We live in the time of hypermensia, this gathering of memories from which we cannot distinguish the essential from the futile. Paradoxically we suffer from a hyper weakness of our memory. We entrust technologies with the responsibility of conserving our memories. Yet, who hasn’t once lost the content of a hard drive, and moreover who hasn’t experienced such a lost as a catastrophy? As we are digging in the ruins, surrounded by objects partly revealed while watching on small screens, many questions remain: can we imagine our own extinction as the human race? What is the actual role of Internet in our culture? What artefacts will we leave buried in the ruins for the archaeologists of the future? Gregory Chatonsky and Dominique Sirois aim to transform the in situ creation space into a futurist archaeological dig. This creation is the premise for a future exhibition in Brussels.

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