The Memory Hole: Home Movie Roulette is a collaborative film/performance project exploring ideas of memory, agency, and chance alignments of language and image. The project utilizes a variety of media—found super 8 home movies, a film projector, audio cassettes, and fragments of found texts (poetry, travel brochure descriptions, children’s book excerpts, vintage advertisements, appliance instruction manuals) to engage with ideas of nostalgia, cultural detritus, and the presence of former mediascapes in our everyday lives. Groups of 3 or 4 participants will randomly choose a film, text and cassette, creating a collage of language, sound and imagery.
Artist Info
Holly Tavel is a fiction writer and artist. She received her MFA from Brown University, and has taught at Pratt Institute, Brown, and CUNY. She currently teaches at Rollins and Valencia. From 2003 to 2007, she was a member of Glowlab, a Brooklyn-based artist’s collective conducting psychogeography and urban space experiments.