The Exquisite Resonance of Memory is a room that pulsates with a world in reverse.

The Exquisite Resonance of Memory is a mixed-media installation by Rebecca Youdell (Bonemap), KickArts’ Russell Milledge and Steven Campbell (sound), and is at the KickArts Upper Gallery until Saturday, August 30, with the official opening at 6pm on Friday, July 25.

The installation is part of the 2008 On Edge Contemporary Media and Performance Festival at KickArts Contemporary Arts.

Bonemap presents suitcases as places of accumulation and as an emblem for events and relationships of the past, each with its history of journey, memory and circumstance, while objects of provenance and museum stasis take on the aura of traditional icons.

The work dramatises the way memory functions through association, leaps or dislocates out of time and space, and how the more profound of these occurrences can give us a new understanding of our relationship with the world.

Video wallpaper adorns the room with a theatrical representation of the temporal body caught in the multiple and inconsistent life of mirrors, where through the poetics of surprise a sinister metamorphosis occurs.

The Exquisite Resonance of Memory has allowed the artists to explore the baroque and surrealist genres in the context of media arts practice.

"It’s an immersive space," Youdell says. "It draws you in with a sense of the individual histories – (with) the tapestry of suitcases and museum-like collection of artifacts, amid the animated wallpaper and sound-scape, the viewer is bound to have a unique experience."

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