<p><i>Remember Me</i> is a miniature installation hosted in an old suitcase, designed for an audience-of-one. It comprises: digital animations of original photographs projected into the suitcase opened as a book-flat; a Victorian photograph album, a page of which is the main screen; a scale model of a trench; and a scrim to achieve 3D projection. The audience-of-one watches twelve minutes of images and text projected onto the screens by pico-projectors; an accompanying soundtrack is delivered via headphones for an immersive experience.</p><p><br></p><p></p><p><i>Remember Me</i> is an artistic investigation of the fragmentation of memory, identity, and World War 1 commemoration. The names of those depicted are now separated from those who could once name them: these soldiers have gradually joined the ranks of a new kind of Missing. This process is historical but concerns us: we may photograph to remember people and capture life moments, but this installation defamiliarises and interrogates photographs as sites of memory, documentation and stillness, and imbues its photographic subjects with a brief, uncanny re-existence thereby foregrounding their fading narratives and identities.</p><p><br></p><p></p><i>Remember Me</i> has been shown in Chester Military Museum; Narberth Museum; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Ansdell Library, Lythm St Anne's; Ormskirk and Formby, TaPRA, Salford, and University of Chester, where conference papers were also delivered; and at Liverpool Hope University. It can be installed in most situations within fifteen minutes.<div><br></div><div><p>Some audience responses:</p><p></p><p>'Stunning'</p><p></p><p>'... an incredible experience...'</p><p></p><p>'...beautiful treatment of old photographs...'</p><p></p><p>'...breathtaking...'</p><p></p><p>'The notion of an old photograph coming to life and becoming a real person is poignant...'</p><p></p><p>'Made me cry...'</p><p></p><p>'Beautifully fitting tribute to a lost generation.'</p><p></p><p>'...images that disappear of people who left...'</p><p></p><p>'A poignant look at those lives lost...'</p><p></p><p>'I experienced presence and loss, and memories that fade away.'</p><p></p><p>'Truly beautiful.'</p><p></p><p>'Moving, wonderful digital imagery.'</p><p><br></p></div>
