Select Your Memories

2017
Turning the archive of Dutch audio-visual heritage to a personal narrative.

Participants are invited to re-narrate their own experience in Dutch historical and political realm. The project connects subjective with the cultural identity. We designed and programmed an alternative tool that explores archive as an imaginative territory and helps identify oneself with Dutch culture.

  • Select Your Memories: Dutch title 'KIES JE HERINNERING' stands upright on black, 'SELECT YOUR MEMORIES' hangs mirrored above
  • Select Your Memories: text-heavy black slide sorts a personal narrative into four brown blocks, 'BLOCK', 'AGE', 'TOPICS'
  • Select Your Memories: a white hen, red comb, peers from the audio-visual archive through jagged black shapes, 'x' top right
  • Select Your Memories: the web tool on deep green, named filmstrips of archive stills line up under a red 'Create new'
  • Select Your Memories: a red toy robot with antennae glints from the heritage archive through jagged black shapes
  • Select Your Memories: a green screen asks 'You are 40 again', three archive stills to re-narrate, a dog, a tall ship, a sink
  • Select Your Memories: a finch with red head and yellow belly perches in the heritage archive behind torn black shapes
  • Select Your Memories: tilted cube houses from the black-and-white heritage archive peek through torn black shapes
  • Select Your Memories: the alternative tool opens on green, 'To start, we need to know', name and age boxes, a red 'Start'