About
Dis-Place is an archive of 33 performances, each drawn from the fragile imprints of memory left by an unnamed author. Over a lifetime spent in 33 homes across four continents, traces of lived moments where derived from 33 artefacts, one for each dwelling.
Yet the author insists: a memory cannot exist without an experience to hold it. These artefacts are not objects to be observed, but portals to be entered. They refused to let the fragments stand alone, demanding that they be shared only through the act of re-living.
Thus, each artefact has become a performance score, an invitation for readers to step inside, to enact, to feel what the author once felt. The archive is less a book than a constellation of instructions, a map of gestures and words that, when followed, allow the artefacts to awaken, momentarily bridging the distance between memory and presence.
A project by Leah Muriel Bowie