through January 22, 2011
AMNESIA FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES ON KAWARA and a FILM/VIDEO PROGRAM curated by Rebecca Cleman and Josh Kline of Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI)
Amnesia is a condition marked by gaps, lacunae in the fabric of memory, missing pieces from a continuum. As a medical condition, amnesia afflicts individuals who cannot recall specific events and times. As a metaphorical condition, amnesia can afflict countries and societies with a collective forgetfulness. History is not the continuous, linear narrative of the past, but rather, a continually shifting collection of fragments held together by those pieces we prioritize and those we choose to forget, a kind of dark matter filling the space between what is desired or allowed to be visible at any given moment. These gaps, however, do not represent loss, but rather discontinuity.
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