Alev Adil

Using film, photography and poetry I explore how political discourse autobiography, collective and individual memory, negotiate the recollection of war and the aftermath of trauma.

In \"The Architecture of Forgetting\" (ongoing series of photographs, texts and performances since 2007) I archive and explore how the border zone in Nicosia is a material manifestation of memory, how the city remembers its past physically, and through the reactions to those ruins of a range of individuals from those born in Nicosia before 1963, 1974 and since; and my own reactions as a diasporic Cypriot who left after 1974.

My work coheres around memory, the disrupted space of subjectivity and the transformative potential of virtual spaces. My methodology is to identify key technologies of memory (individual, collective, official, poetic, demotic), and through their representation and their mediation to explore the double nature of memory and the medium of its transmission. Thus much of my work is interstitial, and often includes autobiographical readings of theory which incorporate text and still/moving image, and my methodology is self-reflexive poetry will remember and speak to image and also invade and disrupt the discursive flow of t...

Central Saint Martins/ Chelsea, London, GB, TrAIN,