Thought & Memory

Thought & Memory is an endurance improvisation performance by Mark Enache. It was created in collaboration with Kent O’Doherty’s HERE|NOW, an exhibition exploring the relationship between memory and personal identity through fabric sculptures. Movement, like fabric, holds the stories of its past—creases, folds, remnants of gestures left behind. This piece explores presence as both fleeting and accumulative, unfolding and re-folding in real time.

 Through repetition, shifting relationships with space, and a physical dialogue between stillness and impulse HERE/NOW blurs the line between performer and observer. Short phrases emerge, evolve, dissolve. A hand meets air, a foot follows, and a gesture is traced and abandoned—sometimes with intention, sometimes by accident, and sometimes with an absurdity that surprises even the performer.

This piece is as much about endurance as it is about surrender—not just to movement but also to the humor, unpredictability, and tiny human moments that surface in the present moment. Rather…