FLEETING EVOCATION

Term // Spring 2021

Professor // Katherine Ambroziak Public Works Memoryscapes //

Memory

Fleeting Evocation is a memorial installation piece that aims to reshape memories of the Black communities that were lost due to the effects of Urban Renewal in Knoxville that took place from 1959 to 1974. Primary research coming from a dissection of the language used within the Knoxville College Newspaper, The Aurora, as well as a study of the Knoxville

Historic Resources Survey revealed a dichotomy of perception present between the city and its community members. The atmospheric qualities produced by the use of a static haze element in collaboration with projection reference memory in a way that is supremely present yet also as intangible as time itself.

Forgotten Identities

The undulating form is not driven by a desire for a performance, but rather a connection; an interpretive juxtaposition of the transitional qualities of space and time upon the collective identities of the Black community.

STATIC HAZE

Projected Pasts

At dusk, opportunities for new life are invited. As individuals interact with the installation, projections become superimposed upon the clouds of haze. The entaglement of these two mediums allows echoes of past experiences to be relived through a multi-sensory method.

Logistical data presented by the Historical resources Survey clashes with experiential data observed throughout the Black community.