Elena Cologni works in mediatised performances and installation, mainly manipulating video to enhance the awareness of the unstable nature of perception and memorisation of reality through time. ‘Since the Creative Lab Residency at CCA in October/November 2006, I have ‘played’ with notions of memory as archival and removal, trying to enhance the audience’s and my own experience of who we are in any given moment. Using video pre-recorded and archival material from the in the ‘presentness’ of the event, underline the everyday’s condition of constantly engaging with (and processing) re-presentation of immediate or remote past, to make sense of the present.

‘You define the present as that which is, when it is simply what is happening. [ce qui se fait]. Nothing is less that the present moment, if you mean by that the indivisible limit that separates the past from the future’. When we think of this present as what ought to be [devant etre], it is no longer, and when we think of it as existing, it is already past…all perception is already memory’ (Bergson Matièr et Mémoire, 166-167)

RE-MOVED is one of the participatory installations and will be presented at Glasgow
international 08. It will be followed by two other periods of interaction with audiences of institutions in Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire. This is funded by York Saint John University.