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examines the ideas of space, time and memory.
We hoped, using sound, light and objects (found, made and manipulated) detached from their
normal contexts and set in a theatrical space free of the usual associations,
to suggest that memory in its richest sense should be central to our daily lives.
Memory is triggered by small events, minute particulars rather than the general,
the wonder of the commonplace rather than the epic.
Our unconcious absorption of tiny fragments of stimuli - colours,
sounds, smells, tactile impressions, atmospheres, snatches of conversation and half-glimpsed
exchanges - feeds the imagination.
In memory, as in music, poetry and film, nothing is fixed.
Time flows in any direction. Spatial and temporal time are fused:
the past coexists with the present, the instant with the eternal,
fantasy with reality.
Memory knows no edges and boundaries, either physical or chronological.
It provides continuity, giving shape to the known and substance to the speculative unknown.
It is a filter of energies that connect us to our individual roots.
Russel Mills, March 1991, London.