Instruction for assembling memory

Instruction for assembling memory

The zine “Instructions for Assembling a Memory” is an integral tactile component of the “Interference Field” project. It is not a guide for action, but rather a parody of an instruction manual, highlighting the futility of attempting to assemble memory step-by-step. It is a deliberately impossible set of instructions. Its steps lead to a dead end. It is an art object that parodies the form of a technical manual and debunks the very idea that any reconstruction of the past is possible. I intentionally use “imperfect” printing so that the zine becomes a material metaphor for the fragility of the aesthetic refuge. Its pages, filled with blurred frames, digital noise, pseudo-diagrams, and fragments of text, invite the viewer to follow a predetermined failing path of assembling a memory—and to experience its fundamental un-assemblability firsthand. The “Instructions” is a personal archive that one can leaf through, rummage in, and that deteriorates over time in one’s hands, offering an intimate, chamber-format experience of loss and the interference of memory.