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Extrrnal memory is a constantly changing reading performance based on notes collected throughout a year before the exact performance date. It acts as an external memory drive for the artist - helping to remember things in detail, not a single day is skipped. The content is totally transparent and sincere. It contains personal notes, social network messages, headlines of articles read, quotes from movies seen, names of places visited, impact of artworks absorbed, records of jokes told, professions of people met, recipes of food eaten and references to global political events that gave a context to it all.  Repeating events such as orgasms, intoxications or breakdowns will be acoustically illustrated by live sound effects, becoming sort of a rhythm of personal statistics. The performance contains a substantial characteristic of a memory - its limitation. During later performances some things will diminish forever, some new things will replace them.

It also acts as a personal tool to keep awareness everyday, a routine to make notes every day and a little helper to try to remember things happening to you which, because of unreliable nature of memory, are on the brink of extinction.

Created for the Symposium on the fluidity of humor and absurdity during the residency in Nida Art Colony.