Memory Palace

Memory Palace was a vigil and community gathering at St. Mark’s Church, open for all to remember the loved ones they’ve lost to AIDS and consider the ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS on the dance, music and visual art communities. In a spirit of lively remembrance, the evening featured readings, performances, music, and more.

6-7PM: Open Mic.

7-8PM: Memory Palace readings by Platform 2016: Lost and Found catalogue contributors Arthur Aviles, Dan Fishback, Denise Hurlin, Eiko Otake, iele paloumpis, Nicky Paraiso, Muna Tseng and Jeff Weinstein

8-10PM: Musical responses by DonChristian, Sadaf, Richard Kennedy, John Kelly and Hi Tiger

Historically, the Memory Palace is a technique of memory recall often used by ancient Greek poets. By committing a location to memory, a poet could take an imaginary “walk” through this location, thereby recalling people, faces, events, and other memorial phenomena. The evening included opportunities for audience members to contribute their own memories to a scroll that will become its own Memory Palace.

Visual AIDS also projected RADIANT PRESENCE Day With(out) Art 2015 project, a digital slideshow with images from the Visual AIDS' Artist+ Registry, the largest database of works by artists with HIV/AIDS.

Presented by Danspace Project in partnership with Visual AIDS, Dancers Responding to AIDS (DRA), and St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery.

Part of PLATFORM 2016: Lost and Found (Further information here)
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