I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 | Various Artists

"Data leaves our separate bodies and returns as a shared (if corrupted) memory.
Bodies of data, amalgamated and discorporate.
Our incantation invokes the memory.
If this festival is a venue for dissolving the hard boundaries of ourselves,
Do you feel connected or displaced?
Will your body, or your machine, hold the memory of this space?
When 4 bodies continue into the future as a single body, do we have the cultural technologies to make this harmonious?"

I remember what the machine remembers what I remember : 我記得住機器記住我記住的 is a live performance and installation fostered by collaborative working friendships and exchange between choreographic and technology artists in Australia and Taiwan - Ming-Chieh LEE, Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, and Zi-Ping TIAN.

The artist group was first formed through an open call for the 2022-2024 Taiwan and Australia Choreography and Technology Exchange Program curated by Matt Cornell for Critical Path and C-LAB. After their global premiere in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan in 2024 the performance was remade for Liveworks and will make its Australian debut. Leaking in and around the porous spaces of Carriageworks across the festival, a cross-cultural artistic team occupies the slippery spaces between the real and the virtual, meaning and language, and body and machine.

Performance times

• Wed 22 Oct, 8-8.30pm

• Thurs 23 Oct, 8-8.30pm

• Sat 25 Oct, 8-8.30pm

Creative team
Collaborating Artists, LEE Ming-Chieh (李明潔), Nasim PATEL, Roslyn ORLANDO, TIAN Zi-Ping (田子平)
Curators, M@ Cornell (for Critical Path). Cicia WANG  (for C-LAB)

Producer, WU Dar-Kuen (for C-LAB), Agnès Michelet (for Critical Path)

Creative Graphics, Liury LIU

Spatial Sound Composer, DEAN Chi-You

Sound Executive, SHYU Li-Hsin

Videographer, LI Yi-Cheng, Marbo WU, YANG Yao-Zhen

First Stage Sound Recording, WU Jia-Jiun, CHENG Yung-Hsin, HSIEH Hsien-Te

Second Stage Sound Recording, The Mattmosphere

Producer, WU Dar-Kuen, Agnès Michelet (for Critical Path)

Curators for C-LAB, M@ Cornell. Cicia WANG

Project Manager for C-LAB, Cindy LIN

Commissioned by Performance Space for Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art 2025 and presented by Performance Space and Critical Path.

Supported by the Cultural Division - Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre and The Playking Foundation.

Original development initiated by Critical Path and supported by Creative Australia, Cultural Division - Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre, Taiwan Living Arts Foundation, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab - C-LAB, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. U108, Future Vision Lab and Taiwan Sound Lab.

Photography by David Chen. Courtesy of C-LAB