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The Making of 'Memorandum'
Kate Hunter, Victoria University, Melbourne
Wednesday, 15 May 5.30-7pm
The event was a successful (and sociable!) occasion attended by members of CKP, postgraduates, and professionals from outside the institution, including Dr Mohamed Sakel, Director/Consultant Neurorehabilitation, Medical Academic Staff Committee, BMA (UK). Technical delays with the projector were masked by a generous supply of wine and the invincible calm of the presenter. Kate gave a truly inspiring, and at times very moving, talk on her work.
Kate has just completed her practice based research, 'Total Recall: The Trajectory of Memory in Performance-Making'. This is a practice-led, cross-disciplinary inquiry that examines the nuanced and complex set of relationships and connections between memory and a theatrical devising process in which material is generated of and by the self. The artist-researcher’s existing practice, grounded in physical training methodologies and improvisational processes, has steered the investigation towards cognitive neuroscience, in particular to theories of embodied cognition as a lens through which to view, and refract, the process of making a performance.
In this presentation, ‘The Making of “Memorandum”’ Kate explored the challenges of navigating across and through poetic and pragmatic territories. The presentation suggested how the immersion of experience in the artistic process might sit within the ‘objectivity’ of a scientific framework. Kate talked about the tools and techniques she used in this work, especially the audio recorder for remembering, and re-remembering.