future events

'monuments to memory games' is an exhibition that examines ideas of 'play' in relation to memory and history through installation, video and live performance. The process of play is central to mmmmm's work. Through play they are engaged in this show with issues of what is performance? What is the spectacle in performance? What is documentation of performance? How to reconstruct histories in contemporary contexts? What evokes memory?

How through engaging in play can the experience of memory and histories be made more empowering, more risky, more present?

Artists: Luna Montenegro, Adrian Fisher, Gines Olivares, Felipe Luck

about ' mmmmm '

In 2000 we created the project name ‘mmmmm’ as a concept for collaborating together. ‘mmmmm’ is a sound, a gag of language, a vibration of the inner cavity of the mouth and skull, an expression of bodily desire.

Our practice develops through an analysis of how performances are described through different disciplines, for example, anthropology, photography, film and then realising the result of this process in live performance actions, then re-registering them in text, photography, film and by word of mouth.

As part of our research process, investigations in the time and space of the action, we have been working on '10,000 years' a project inspired by the lives of the Selk'nam (Ona) people who lived in Tierra del Fuego, Chile. They are now culturally extinct. The culture was one of the few hunter gather fishing tribes left largely untouched by western civilisation until the beginning of the last century. The Selk'nam people had elaborate systems of belief and made rituals from the natural enviroment utilising shamanic practice and rites of passage experiences.