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Telling Secrets to Strangers memories of performance: performance of memories

We begin with a definition. There's a distinction to be made between memory and remembrance. It is a distinction suggested initially by Freud, who used the terms memoire voluntaire for memory and memoire involuntaire for remembrance. Whilst memory serves to put the past into some semblance of order, absorbing what has been remembered into a deliberate continuum which locates the distant past at one end and the present at the other, remembrance destroys the separation of past and present. In other words, at those moments when images from the past are triggered by sensations which are being experienced in the present, remembrance manages to fuse the past with the present. In this way the linear continuity that is generally seen, via memory, to exist between the past and present is taken apart, deconstructed. Linearity is no longer then accepted as a given so much as its deconstruction becomes a fact. Time that was lost may in this way no longer seem to be so, for through remembrance that past is not made subject to an act of revival but one of renewal. Remembrance functions as at once the result of performance and a paradigm for performance itself