Annamaria Valavaara

My practice-based research explores memory as an extended and embedded phenomenon through interdisciplinary practice, focusing on how memory is preserved and lost in human, natural, and technological contexts.

Drawing on time-based media, autoethnography and psychogeography, I aim to experiment with mnemonic visual techniques inspired by filmmakers such as Alain Resnais, Charlie Kaufman, and Agnès Varda.

A key question is whether technological or natural memristors could preserve, temporarily hold, and transform memories after they are lost. How does nature remember, and what critical questions does memory fragmentation in individuals and the environment raise about our identity, space, and temporality?

The project draws on anarchival methods (Massumi, Springgay et al.) and Bo Ossian Lindberg's concepts of innehåll (that which is visible in the image) and utehåll (that which is absent but sensed or remembered), to investigate how fragmented or partial memories continue to shape experience.

Names of Supervisors:

• Mary Modeen and Helen Gorrill