Introducing I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的
I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 is a live performance and installation fostered by collaborative working friendships and exchange between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan - Ming-Chieh LEE, Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, and Zi-Ping TIAN.
The artist group was first formed through an open call for the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program curated by Matt Cornell for Critical Path and C-LAB. After their global premiere in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan in 2024 the performance was remade for Liveworks and will make its Australian debut.
"I see performance as a way to recognice what slips past us in daily life. In our technology-oriented world, the body is often the first thing to be left behind. Art gives us the opportunity to imagine new futures." - Nasim Patel
What can audiences expect from your performance?
Our performance reconfigures how we experience our surroundings, opening the space-time of memory by interrogating the borders of our bodies. Audience can expect the familiar space of Carriageworks to become a porous site of transformation itself, made slippery by our projection work.
What is the role of performance in your life?
I see performance as a way to recognise what slips past us in daily life. In our technology-oriented world, the body is often the first thing to be left behind. Art gives us the opportunity to imagine new futures. Live performance plays an essential role in configuring how our bodies, and the cultural technologies they carry, are considered in our advancing worlds.
What are you most looking forward to at Liveworks?
The original version of this work was performed at the National Taiwanese Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan, so we're all looking forward to remoulding the work for a new audience and space! Presenting the piece at Carriageworks, with its rich and time-worn atmosphere, lends a unique context to invoke memories.
We're also looking forward to seeing how Daley Rangi and Pony Express transform the foyer and create an exciting festival atmosphere!
Words by Nasim Patel.
LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, TIAN Zi-Ping (田子平), I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的, Liveworks 2025, Carriageworks. Photography by Lucy Parakhina
LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Nasim PATEL, I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的, Liveworks 2025, Carriageworks. Photography by Lucy Parakhina
LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), , I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的, Liveworks 2025, Carriageworks. Photography by Lucy Parakhina
Nasim PATEL, remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的, Liveworks 2025, Carriageworks. Photography by Lucy Parakhina
LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, TIAN Zi-Ping (田子平), I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的, Liveworks 2025, Carriageworks. Photography by Lucy Parakhina
Hero image: Photography by David Chen, courtesy of C-LAB
