Performance sketch: Originating from the votive healing rituals of greek orthodox and catholic diaspora communities, the Amnestesia technique combines voluntary labor, improvised storytelling, and post-processing (post-event processing of the narrative document), to elicit, isolate, and display the intermediary utterances and human gestures in the undisciplined performance of narrative catharsis. The participant is given a task/object and the prompt to imbue that task/object with story. A camera captures the these two entities as they coevolve. The task [—in this case the inflation of a being—] is then edited to three minutes—no more than four—to remove the spoken story and allow the speech-free language of the liminal space of reflection and transference to remain.
Tama / milagro (miracle) / ex-voto / promesa