Remember Me...
In 2008 I inherited a writing desk from my grandmother. Upon opening it and exploring the contents I realised that the inside of this desk was the only physical space that she could have truly called her own..
In 2012 this desk became the basis for Remember Me… a touring performance for an audience of 20 people at a time, where the writing surface of a büro-desk opened to reveal a space that became the stage on which the dramatic extravagances of the large-scale operatic production were re-imagined. The audience was taken to an utopian world in which less vocal sensibilities were given the space to exist and resonate. The performance toured during November 2012 to sound (Aberdeen), Sonica (Glasgow), hcmf// (Huddersfield) and November Music (s’-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands). In 2013 it will tour to festivals in Denmark and the South of England.
“Exquisitely beautiful, fragile work that played with Purcell’s opera Dido and Aeneas in a sometimes elusive meditation on memory.”
David Kettle, The Scotsman
In 2023 Remember Me… has been re-imagined as an audio-visual installation. An installation that contemplates the act of remembering as a dynamic and embodied activity that weaves our experiences, feelings and thoughts together with those of past, present and future fellow humans, spaces and environments. First installed at Festival Rainy Days in Luxembourg.
A Cryptic production by Claudia Molitor for Sonica, co-commissioned by hcmf//, supported by the PRS for Music Foundation and The RVW Trust.
Image from the performance at Scotland Street, Glasgow
At Festival Rainy Days, Luxembourg
One of the three films projected during the performance of Remember Me...
Annea Lockwood with the desk