"There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us," Hannah Lillith Assadi writes in her debut novel, Sonora.
A large body of memory research supports this notion of memory enhancement for novel information (Gabrieli et al., 1997; Wittman et al., 2007).
Just as the faculty of perception takes as its objects mind-independent bodies, the faculty of memory takes as its objects events in the past.
This is clear when she plays the piano, an art that both demands and provides a sort of superintegration, a total integration of sense and muscle, of body and mind, of memory and fantasy, of intellect and emotion, of one's whole self, of being alive.
And as cinematic encounter -- the language, physicality and pure presence of energy here in the characters of Lancaster Dodd and Fred Quell is about drama itself, and at the center of this drama, the actor's instruments, the body as an instrument of memory, and the actor who uses sense memory to act, to call about himself or herself, her memory to enact a text.
A small water pot in the Eskenazi show retains in the outline of the body the memory of shapes that appeared in prehistoric times.
The 'performance' metaphor recognizes the important role that bodily enactments, commemorative rituals, and cultural displays occupy in constituting and bringing meaning to memorials and monuments, suggesting that the body itself constitutes a place of memory.
Marden does nothing if not pay homage to very late de Kooning, whose last coherent works were a kind of memory of the body and its boundaries - the artist's own, the bodies he admired and desired - all distilled into pure gesture and aching colour.
Choreographed by Ushio Amagatsu, "Hibiki," to be danced again at 7 30 p.m. from Thursday through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday, explores the body's memory of the past and echoes of the origin of life.
To quantify this intuitive concept of history-dependence as memory, we use concepts from information theory [48] in the tradition of Landauer's use of informational entropy to estimate human memory capacity [49], and the extensive body of work characterizing memory in individual neurons [50] [53].
