I remember what the machine remembers what I remember (Mandarin trans.: 我記得住機器記住我記住的) is a joint production between Nasim Patel, Roslyn Orlando, LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), and TIAN Zi-Ping (田子平), and a reimagined iteration of their 2024 work BODY DATA LOOP. The work was premiered in Performance Space’s 2025 Liveworks festival.
“Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory.
Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate.
Our incantation invokes the memory.
If this festival is a venue for dissolving the hard boundaries of ourselves,
Do you feel connected or displaced?
Will your body, or your machine, hold the memory of this space?
When 4 bodies continue into the future as a single body, do we have the cultural technologies to make this harmonious?”
After the global premiere of BODY DATA LOOP in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan in 2024, the performance was remade for its Australian debut as part of Liveworks. Leaking in and around the porous spaces of Carriageworks across the festival, the four artists occupied the slippery spaces between the real and the virtual, meaning and language, and body and machine.
Performances:
22, 23, 25 October 2025: Liveworks, Carriageworks Foyer, Sydney
Installations:
22-26 October 2025: Liveworks, Carriageworks Foyer, Sydney
Creative team:
Curators: M@ Cornell (for Critical Path). Cicia WANG (for C-LAB)
Producer: WU Dar-Kuen (for C-LAB), Agnès Michelet (for Critical Path), Kristina Salopek (for Performance Space)
Creative Graphics: Liury LIU
Spatial Sound Composer: DEAN Chi-You
Sound Executive: SHYU Li-Hsin
Videographer: LI Yi-Cheng, Marbo WU, YANG Yao-Zhen
First Stage Sound Recording: WU Jia-Jiun, CHENG Yung-Hsin, HSIEH Hsien-Te
Second Stage Sound Recording: The Mattmosphere
Project Manager for C-LAB: Cindy LIN
Mentors: Linda Dement, Eisa Jocson
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