Statement

We honor and memorialize painful or joyous events in our everyday lives.  September 11, 2001 is a day that has changed how we live in many ways.  Ten years after this unforgettable day, we have begun to relate new thoughts and feelings to the memories associated with that moment in history.  Inspired by Tobi Kahn’s Embodied Light: 9-11 in 2011, we look to the simple form of a white block as a conduit for remembrance.  

The Memory Block Project is an online archive with continually expanding content.  Via the democratic space of the internet, this free public art work asks for your thoughts, feelings and associations of 9/11. Users anonymously share images, text or video on the website, creating a growing archive of cues that remind us of 9/11 in the everyday.   

Using this archive of symbols,The Memory Block Project encourages individuals to upload media that evokes their experiences of 9/11. Through combining these contributions, The Memory Block Project aims to inspire meditations on spirituality, values and remembrance through abstract associations. Combined, these individual contributions become a collective and democratic archive of what we wish to remember.

The Memory Block Project is an online exhibition created by Lee Johnson , Rachel Klinghoffer, Benjamin Peterson and Justin Phillipson in conjunction with Tobi Kahn’s Embodied Light: 9-11 in 2011 at the Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery open September 9  - November 23, 2011.

For more information please contact info@thememoryblockproject.com