MEMORY EXPERIMENT #1

a project in the pilot issue of a new magazine from the makers of PANIC

the english translation:

The following project is an invention which enables one to investigate everyday thoughts and to operate on their ephemerality.  A snapshot of analogue RAM.  Readers are welcome and encouraged to test this invention for themselves.  The process is simple: whenever you find a coin, write down whatever you were just thinking about, and place the paper and the coin in a small, dated envelope. 

Stray coins provide a specific yet unpredictable time scale for sampling one’s thoughts, removing the contamination of expectation.  A diary by dice.  The project provides a venue for the vast realm of thinking that goes largely unremembered: that which is divorced from noteworthy events.  The audience is given a sliver of the stage, allowing the ordinary to have a place in our spectacle society.