عريب طوقان oraib toukan
Trying to count memories without laughters disruption, 2007
Two-channel Video 9’45’’
“Please stop me from laughing, I cannot hold my memories any longer…
Just finish making my history for I am dying of laughter even as you are trying to kill me with it…
Just finish forging my past…
I will stop laughing…
I will learn to forget that I can remember…
I swear I learnt to forget that I can remember…”
‘Trying to count memories without laughter’s disruption’ is a raw exploration of the self within the creation and propagation of a history built on the concept of déjà vu. A paradoxical narrative that speaks of the past, present, and future is written in blue beads. The sound resulting from moving beads is systematically synthesized into the sound of battles and ultimately open seas. Together these sounds thrust the viewer from one state of flux to another. Within the video installation space, a small round projection of a blue eye stands high on the wall. The eye blinks at the same tempo of the main projection.
