Characterised by the reliance on information technology and the widespread availability of data, The Information Age has redefined how we process and experience life.

By transferring human knowledge and inanity into consigned external devices, we entrust the perpetuity of memory while unwittingly reevaluating the need for organic remembrance. Almost indifferently, it has given way to what some may call the “end of forgetting”, but it can easily derive the opposite due to that same reliance on the increasing appliances of user-friendly technologies.

Memory is a rudimentary solution that is to be understood backwards. It acts as a reflective construct of the past that carelessly demands a present while it yearns inevitable futures. In most cases, we transmit these shed fragments of our lives almost nolens volens because they are what lies behind the self. That is why leaving our cultural patrimony behind through ephemeral moments, conversations or acts may not look relevant when performed, but it is only then when individual and communal histories start to shape, grow or die.

It is only natural that due to the constant industrialisation of our current age (and “the lack of need” for memories that are not archived, preserved or shared) folklore, crafts and oral traditions end up becoming endangered pieces of heritage. Through this research project, I explore the history, materials and politics behind these losses in the Spanish region of La Rioja. I also create new methods to develop intergenerational relationships and opportunities for interest since that is the only way knowledge can persevere through The Death of Memory.

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