Paths
Memory and objects
Stories, pages and recorded voices: follow memory through the forms that make it shareable.
A page and a recording offer different ways of encountering the past. This route brings together memory in Calvino’s writing, the uses of analogue objects and the musical reuse of a voice. The proposed connection is a question: how do a medium and our habits of using it change what receives our attention? The final step, the book on Calvino, develops the relationship between narrative form, embodiment and identity. Each note retains its link to the complete source.
4 steps
From the archive · What a story preserves
Open the reading ↗Begin with narrative form: choosing a scene and a voice is already part of the work of remembering.
From the archive · Objects that resist
Open the reading ↗Turn to objects that guide gestures: the bounded page and habits of reading invite questions about the material conditions of attention.
From the archive · Inhabiting someone else’s memory
Open the reading ↗Listen for what changes when a voice is recorded, reused and placed within a musical composition.
I fondovalle della memoria: Italo Calvino tra narrazione, neuroni e filosofia
Open the reading ↗Return to philosophical questions about memory through an extended study of Calvino, narrative and the sciences of mind.