March 16 – April 15, 2006
Images Festival
Chris Curreri
Carol Flax


Chris Curreri, Circa 1960, 2005, stlls from 6 min. 16 mm film loop

Chris Curreri’s Circa 1960 is composed of a single found print, placed face down in a frame and a 16 mm film loop, of approximately six minutes, growing out of the same tiny photograph. Though we never see the face of this image, the artist has provided us with an impression of it through a series of holes or pinpricks, which trace the outlines of what must lie on the other side. With this pointillist sketch we must imagine what lies between the shadows made by the tiny protusions. The film, tracing the same or similar mountainscape, animates this consolation of pierced points. Like a diorama of old, with its shifting and changing light, this film plays upon the magic of moving shadows, animating an otherwise spare field into innumerable landscapes.


Carol Flax’s memoria/memoir installation begins by gathering and recording personal stories related by visitors to the piece through an interactive input booth. By speaking into a microphone in the booth, visitors’ stories are added to a continually growing database of recoded memory consisting of text, audio, and visuals. The experience is an immersive environment that the viewer both participates in and observes, tying together the larger questions of personal memory, the way we record and remember, and how through the functions of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, memory is mutable and changing over time.

Carol Flax, memoria/memoir, 2005/06, installation view.

More about Carol Flax - www.carolflax.net

EXHIBITION BROCHURE AND ESSAY BY SHELLEY LAWRENCE