My brother is a green parrot

A project by Amnesia decides, a collaboration between: Noemi Niederhauser & Hélène Combal-Weiss

2014-2015

My brother is a green parrot is the result of Noemi Niederhauser’s Graduates Residency 2014 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Amnesia decides is made by a duo: Hélène Combal-Weiss & Noemi Niederhauser. On one side, they investigate experimental materials and video in the design process, and on the other side, they use a mix media based practice concerned with archiving and the interpretation/ misinterpretation of artifacts. It is an approach that results in the creation of disruptive narratives by choreographing the making and the meaning in hybrid ways.

Amnesia decides interrogates the place of artifacts as discourses of knowledge and cultural value. It analyzes how the appropriation and will to understand cultural elements that do not belong to one’s own society or time necessarily leads to inaccuracy, misconception or speculation. Instead of thinking of those notions as obstacles which should be avoided, the duo allows them to become the intrinsic subjects of Amnesia decides.