Memory Traces: Amman
(Fulbright Project)
Memory Traces: Amman is a research-based art project on subjective cartography, carried out from September 2009 to December 2010 during a Fulbright fellowship in Amman, Jordan.
The project examines the mutability of the rapidly expanding city of Amman and the relationship between obsolescence in cartographic resources.
By reaching out to Ammani residents for informal city tours, selected ‘guides’ were asked to share their experiences navigating the city and to point out key landmarks they used.
Later, these tours were re-memorized, and landmarks were photographed as afterimages of the plasticity of a growing urban environment.1
1. Mamou, Regina. 2014. “Mapping Collected Memory: An Exploration of Memory-Based Navigation in Amman, Jordan.” Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 3 (June): 138-59. https://doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2014.7. A version of this text appeared in an article I authored, which was published in Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, a scholarly, peer-reviewed online publication edited by graduate students in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
Untitled (Abdali's Plan), 2010
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Untitled (Circle 1–8), 2010
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Seven Hills (diptych), 2010
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Untitled (Site #1), 2010
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Untitled (From Jabal Al-Qala'a), 2010
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Untitled (Bird Garden), 2010
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Untitled (Accidental Document #1), 2010
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Untitled (Third Circle), 2010
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Some Undefined Boundary (diptych), 2010
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Untitled (Street Corner, Hashimi), 2010
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Untitled (Makan), 2010
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While Meditating on Loss (diptych), 2010
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Untitled (Dawn, Hashimi), 2010
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Untitled (Rainbow Building), 2010
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East/West Division (diptych), 2010
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Untitled (Luzmila Hospital), 2010
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Untitled (Shmeisani Hospital), 2010
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Untitled (InterContinental), 2010
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Untitled (Abdoun Bridge), 2010
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Untitled (Site #2), 2010
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