The Art Of… on ABC and ABC iview S2E7 – Memory: It can be precious, haunting, fleeting, core, fading. In this episode Namila Benson unpacks this slippery yet self-defining concept .
Namilla meets avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker Laurie Anderson who has created a chat bot version of her late husband Lou Reed. Writer and comedian ALOK shares how they reshape memory through sharing the deeply personal with audiences.
And we explore song and memory: Namila hears memories of her homeland PNG in the harmonies of Aaron Chulai & the Tatana Peroveta Choir while the Rewire Musical Memories Choir which supports people living with dementia and their families shows us the unbelievable power of music to unlock the forgotten.
Art Historian Mary McGillivray looks at what museums and galleries choose to remember.
The ABC Of… on ABC and ABC iview – Tuesday 9 December at 9:20pm
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The Art Of… on ABC and ABC iview S2E7
