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Brooklyn, NYC (2025)

Memory Carcass

2025

Art Cake 
Brooklyn, NY

Memory Carcass is a gallery installation and performance that examines memory as a living, mutable force. Rather than treating memory as a fixed point, the work explores how recollection continually reshapes the past—how each act of remembering rewrites what came before. Just as the future is uncertain and open to infinite possibility, so too is the past: a blend of fact and fiction, constantly in flux. Set within an immersive installation of suspended soft sculptures—formed from fabric, wax, stuffed animals, pantyhose, rhinestones, and other found materials—the performance unfolds across time and space. Sculptural elements hang like remnants in a meat locker, holding the residue of memory and suggesting the physical and emotional weight of experience. Over the course of the 70-minute performance, the gallery shifts from contemplative viewing space to charged performance environment, as movement, sound, and language animate the installation. Performers embody evolving narratives of personal and collective memory, inviting audiences into a layered exploration of how we store, access, and reinterpret the past.

Installation Format/Audience Experience

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Audiences enter an immersive gallery environment anchored by two slowly rotating sculptural “sentinels” and eight suspended forms—pig carcasses meticulously constructed from fabric, pantyhose, wax, rhinestones, stuffed animals, and other found materials. Hung by jute rope and wood armatures, these soft sculptures evoke the stark containment of a meat locker while complicating its visual and material language. The installation is open to the public for approximately thirty minutes before the performance, allowing viewers to move freely through the space and encounter the work as a still-life of tension, decay, and memory. A subtle lighting and sound shift signals transition: the audience takes seated positions along the gallery perimeter as a 70-minute choreographic work unfolds, activating the sculptures and environment through embodied narrative. The performance reanimates the installation, drawing out themes of physical memory, transformation, and the quiet residues of personal and collective experience.

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Visual and Material Elements

Material Elements

 

  • Suspended soft sculptures that are manipulated, and interacted with.

  • Costumes that evolve throughout the performance and retain tactile evidence of past action

  • Ambient and text-based sound design delivered through directional speakers or open soundscape

  • Lighting and projection design optional based on space.

 

Technical & Logistical Overview

 

  • Ideal install time: 1–2 days

  • Technical needs: flexible lighting, basic sound system (2–4 channels); projection optional

  • Memory Carcass can tour with a fully realized lighting and sound environment developed in collaboration with a professional audiovisual team specializing in immersive installation-performance. The work requires no additional lighting design or technical support from the hosting institution; our team provides and manages all elements of the installation, ensuring a seamless and precisely cued integration into gallery or performance spaces.

  • Touring team includes performers, stage manager, and light/sound install crew

  • The work scales for mid-size to large galleries and can be adapted to unconventional spaces

 

Curatorial & Educational Collaboration

 

We welcome institutional partnerships that frame the work within broader thematic programming—particularly those concerned with materiality, feminist performance, or somatic practice.

 

Opportunities include:

 

  • Artist talks and embodied walkthroughs

  • Workshops on performance and sculptural process

  • Dialogue with education or public programs teams to deepen access and engagement

  • Memory Carcass offers museums and galleries a layered experience that merges visual, temporal, and corporeal vocabularies—an evolving archive of movement, material, and memory.

To request the full Memory Carcass video, press kit and/or for booking inquiries contact:

rockdancecollective@gmail.com

908-561-9699

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