MeMoSa: The Mourning Room by Cate Mok
Student Artist-in-Residence, Cate Mok presents: The Mourning Room
Thursday, April 10th | Doors Open 5:30 PM, Showing 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This immersive experience seeks to embody and spatialize love and connection across distance, loss, and time – your love story as told through a hallucinated sunset and sunrise, programmed and designed using one’s own sensory memory and generative and haptic technologies. Connecting ancient shrines and funerary rituals to reliquaries, lockets, the invention of the telegram, phone booths, FaceTime calls, VR meeting spaces and more – the accompanying exhibit and showcase explores the development of technologies and devices of connection across history. How have and might we design spaces and choreographies to miss someone, and sustain the physical memory and presence of them? How can hybrid technologies prototype and facilitate architectural and digital circuitries for love, grief, and the warping of narrative space and time that exist in the online/physical worlds built and inhabited between two people? ———Doors open at 5:30 PM and event begins at 6:00 PM
Research Presentation/Performance 6:00 – 6:45 PM
Audience Demo 6:45 – 7:00 PM
Open Installation 7:00 – 7:30 PM
To visit, please RSVP and contact us via email at movement@barnard.edu at least 24 hours before the event. We will coordinate your entry through the main entrance (3009 Broadway). Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Cate Mok is a junior studying Architecture and Computer Science with a specialization in immersive design. Her research, design, and writing focuses on immersive experiences and spaces, architectural pedagogy, and experimental narrative forms. Drawing from a background in creative writing and installation art, her work seeks to facilitate human connection and conversation in an increasingly digital world. In her residency, she is exploring what it means to embody and spatialize long distance love and emotional intimacy through interactive furniture and exercises. How can we design spaces and choreographies to miss someone? How can immersive technologies be used to cultivate architectural and digital circuitries for love and grief and warp narrative space and time?
