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ADHERE + DENY | AND SEE IF MEMORY IS THERE
What does it mean to belong to a culture of amnesia? - Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Adhere And Deny presented AND SEE IF MEMORY IS THERE from February 20 to February 25, 2006. AND SEE IF MEMORY IS THERE, designed for paper puppets and actors, is an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s playlet MOZART AND SALIERI, which cemented the popular myth that Antonio Salieri poisoned Mozart. But it is not the unsubstantiated rumour of Mozart’s death at the hands of Salieri that was of interest to Adhere And Deny. It was historical amnesia, the eclipsing of one artist by another, erasing the former from our collective memory, and how the amnesia and erasure, besides being the capricious whims of societal fashion and cultural engineering, are often of our own design. Antonio Salieri saw into the future, he saw the future in the music of Mozart, but he knew that he could not make the journey to tomorrow because he had locked himself up in the past and threw away the keys. But does that deserve a death sentence? It is the murder of Salieri at the hands of passing fashion and Salieri that was of interest to Adhere And Deny.
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