Memory Replacement

Happy Bright Friday - have your Memory Replaced with cats. /  by mirena

Have your Memory Replaced with cats. This pic was indeed taken on Union Square so these aren't ordinary cats - they are freedom loving, new yorker, union square cats. Will explain the leashes later.

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Memory Replacement with Cats – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee

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Pics from my Memory Replacement performance.

Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee

it doesn't take too long before people grab the paints and the brushes. It is a beautiful thing to paint. And what brings people together is doing an entirely odd thing for an entirely odd reason.

Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee

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Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee

Messages written during my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square /  by mirena

One of the aims of the work is honesty via immediacy, unexpected interaction, friendly confrontation on the street and eliciting the same in people I met. Because I was not protected or tasked by an institution and there was no institutional context to my work - myself, the work and the result were  entirely at the mercy of complete and unbridled honesty. .

I surely relied on everyone being at least a bit nonplussed and curious and to have no time to feel self-conscious or deliberate.

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And thirdly ( something imagesurgeon correctly noted ) I was a living sounding board placed on one hand between a guy who was shining shoes and on the other a couple of masked guys who were selling bricks (yeah, the real kind). With the understanding that Union Square has always been a place of gathering and dissent.

via imagesurgeon: . The People have the power! ( if they did but realise it?) Iconoclasm is a way of intelligently re establishing that power. . .

Messages written during Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee Messages written during Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee Messages written during Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square by Mirena Rhee

Memory Replacement – Election Day /  by mirena

During my Memory Replacement – Election Day performance on Union Square.  

Memory Replacement was a success.

This is about giving people weapons - little arrows of brushes and sharpies, and oddly enough people use these weapons to express their feelings of belonging and joy of one another. I want to use these tiny weapons to bring the best in people, a moment of joy with an arrow of paint. Where people from all walks of life put there heads together in a brief moment, a second of color.

Where day traders and day schoolers doodle together on the sidewalk.

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Photos by Ian Mack - ianmackstudios.com

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