Egg Ceremony: Introduction

*A Confluence of Abstract Memory, Emotion and Event *

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Egg Ceremony is a cyclical multi-media performance exploring guilt and recurring memory in the context of grief and the ancient ritual of egg decoration.

The performance is an interpretation of the image to the left from JULIACKS’ comic, “Swell.”

During this scene a fight occurs between two sisters. Soon after in the narrative one of the sisters dies. Therefore the Egg Ceremony becomes an event of significance.

For the surviving sister, the memory reoccurs over and over as a reminder of her loss and regret. Egg Ceremony is based on the idea that every time we remember something we are recreating the moment or event in our minds.

Within Egg Ceremony, from the perspective of Emmeline the surviving sister, this moment becomes a recurring and somewhat haunting memory. As espoused by the neuroscientist Yadin Dudai and accepted as fact in the scientific community, the more we remember a memory, the more inaccurate it becomes.

Egg Ceremony takes this idea to the extreme and shows how memory abstracts.