This interactive installation foregrounds the human impulse to collect objects, and to imbue these collected things with personal meaning. Literally, a heap of objects belonging to local Houstonians accumulates and disappears. Accompanying audio narratives relating to the special meanings these objects have for their owners are wound and rewound based on the viewer's motion. Time, narrative and movement are conflated, and gallery visitors can literally "scrub" the work: using their bodies to start, reverse and fast forward the flow of time, as well as the accumulation of the collected memories.
Lina Dib is a Phd candidate in anthropology. Dib's compositions range from the ethnographic to the experimental and have been shown in Montreal, New York and Houston.
