Memory Bliss

Participatory Spatial Installation, https://memory-bliss.jeron.org

Memory Bliss is a site-specific participatory spatial installation
spanning two exhibition levels. The work uses doors, thresholds,
surfaces, stairwells, elevators, and lighting as elements of a
spatial score. Small labels carrying brief instructions and QR
codes are placed on architectural structures, everyday objects,
and easily overlooked spots. The QR codes lead to a browser-
based Glitch Recorder and to a continuously changing Video
Pool. The work is conceived primarily as an on-site experience:
the existing architecture determines where and how actions take
place, and the digital layer connects them within a shared,
temporally unstable image space. The arrangement is
deliberately not a linear route. Visitors discover individual
instructions, decide their own order, and determine the duration
and intensity of their participation.

The work examines forgetting not as the counterpart to memory,
but as a process that transforms memory, and it enacts this
process rather than depicting it. Visitors perform short, self-
determined gestures: they trace the shape of something lost in
the air, place a stone on an empty chair, walk through a door and
bring something back, or hold a cup as if it were full. Each action
can enter the shared visual system as a video trace. A newly
recorded gesture remains partially recognizable at first, then is
shifted in time, fragmented, layered, and increasingly
transformed. It can merge with other traces, disappear, and later
resurface in altered form. The result is not an archive that
preserves the past, but a system in which new traces alter the
traces already present. Memory appears as something produced
through selection, repetition, distortion, and loss.