MacArthur Park is a liminal zone between place and non-place, an area of the city that oscillates between cultural identity and anonymity. Differing ideas and perceptions of the park are shaped by the range of memories of those who occupy, and move around and through, this space daily. R.A.M. leverages these random, everyday memories of MacArthur Park into a new public experience. A series of interventions—memory gathering devices—are distributed into the landscape, setting up the conditions for a social and cultural space embedded with a deeper understanding of its memory. These memory gathering devices allow old memories to reemerge and new ones to be formed, overlaying and interweaving diverse memories of the park across time.
Random Access Memories
