Post-it notes, the best symbol of our hyper-technified times, when our faculty of memory depends more and more on devices and messages turns smaller and ephemeral. Will our brains atrophy?
In the past art was used to commemorate (monument comes from latin word monere, remember) but now collective projects as Wikipedia and Internet itself are changing this old concept: democratic system allows almost any idea and abundance of information seems to leave no space for a critical choice of the best.
The idea of NONUMENT is to make us aware of our human condition as forgetters, non-rememberers, and think about the complexity of human memory, not just storage of images and words. For better or for worse amnesia is part of us: forgetting can be the source of disasters whereas forgiveness. In the future will be space for mistake? and for pardon?
Luis Alipio