Becoming Fahrenheit 451


Some sort of literary psychoanalysis

performance together with Gabriela Vainsencher







10.01.2008        Opening night of solo exhibition at Buia Gallery

18h30                50 min session


Confidential 

For Internal use only

EKT- a case history

text by Gabriela Vainsencher

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Eve K. Tremblay in the process of Becoming Fahrenheit 451 is trying to remember and recitate the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury with the help of Gabriella Vainsencher (as the analyst) in a pseudo psychoanalytical setting playing around the concept of the unconscious as absolute memory (Freud)  and as a response to a passage in the book alluding to a method of recalling memory that is not named in the book.


- But I’ve forgotten

- No, nothing is ever lost,we have ways to shake down your clinkers for you

- But I’ve tried to remember

  1. -Don’t try. All of us have photographic memories, but spend a life time learning how to block off the things that are really in there. Simmons here has worked on it for twenty years and now we’ve got the method down to were we can recall anything that’s been read once…