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Greenfield: Body as a Memory

What do we remember? How do we remember? Why is remembering important? Memories and past experiences form our identities and dictate our further steps. Some memories are important to let go. In other times we are unable to remember – and then a sudden place or a situation or a smell brings it back. What our bodies remember? Body as a memory. What memories bring a surrounding environment – a certain physical manifestation of previous times – and how does it impact us?

When I first began to write, I had been a child for most of my life, and my childhood memories were vivid and potent, the forces that shaped me. Most of them had grown fainter with time, and whenever I write one down, I give it away: it ceases to have the shadowy life of memory and becomes fixed in letters. /…/ A person in her twenties has been a child for most of her life, but as time goes by that portion that is childhood becomes smaller and smaller, more and more distant, more and more faded, though they say at the end of life the beginning returns renewed vividness, as though you had sailed all the way around the world and were going back into the darkness from which you came. For the elderly, often the nearby and recent become vague and only the faraway in time and space is vivid.*

*Rebecca Solnit “A Field Guide To Getting Lost” (2005)

This Greenfield will be curated by Ann Mirjam Vaikla.

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Greenfield, an open platform for artists is a monthly event held at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava where artists from different fields (dancers, theatre makers, musicians, visual artists, poets etc.) can get acquainted with each other’s creation, to show their work in progress pieces and to create dialogue with other creators and the audience.

This season, each Greenfield is curated by a different guest curator. Every Greenfield has the face of its curator which widely reflects different contemporary art practices.

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