On Wednesday the Foundation Diploma team made its way up to the iconic Victoria and Albert museum to see one of the most talked about exhibitions over the past months. Memory palace brought to us by Sky Arts is an exhibition adapted from the novel written by Hari Kunzru. To give you a brief overview of the story, the novel depicts a time many years from now, where a magnetic storm has destroyed the worlds technology infrastructure and all the information associated with this.
The narrator of the story is set to be part of a secret group and it is this foundation that the exhibition sets up to explore. A collaboration of illustrators, painters, graphic designers and installation artists each responded to part of the story where the narrator starts to talk about his memories and recalls partial information. The exhibition allows for complete escape form the real world and allows you to start to think rather deeply about how we in this day and age rely so heavily on technology and where we store our information. Its was an amazing exhibition with a rich eclectic take from each of the artists and designers.
Small in size yet overwhelmingly powerful and as an audience you feel trapped in his story wanting to read every chapter to create the bigger picture. The exhibition finishes with a memory wall, a digital installation where the audience can write and sketch out their own single memories that can be viewed on a large screen within the exhibition, not only that but on a weekly basis the walls are printed out and installed within the exhibition given new audience members an insight into who has been. On until the 20th October I would advise you all to go and see this. Having worked on projects before where students have responded and adapted to bodies of text and novels it was great to finally see this type of work in a gallery produced by some of the worlds leading contemporary artists and designers.
The day also gave us an opportunity to visit club to catwalk, a fashion design exhibition with an insight into the links between social affairs, the 80's as a genre and classic age and the influence within fashion at this time. A bonus also was that the students were booked into the fantastic educational facilities at the museum to give an informal presentation about what they had found interesting to date, this was a great start to presentation techniques and bringing the groups closer together in giving constructive criticism and peer support.
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