Spatial Memory Influx (2026)

Custom Built Interface
Generative Pop-up Engine
Live interactive performance, with Sound
45 min



Interface view


Spatial Memory Influx is a live, interactive performance navigating digital memory of changing urban landscapes. 

The performance unfolds through a live navigation of a custom-built browser interface composed of spatial fragments, HDRIs, videos, banners, and circulating digital traces gathered from and about disappearing neighbourhoods in the city of Jeddah. These fragments appear as partial, situated views, carrying the perspectives of those who stopped to record, witness, and remember.

At the centre of the work is a generative pop-up engine. Pop-ups emerge, overlap, and disappear interrupting the interface and refusing continuity. Here, the pop-up operates as both form and metaphor: a stand-in for how neighbourhoods are framed, surfaced, and made visible through platform logics. What seems random is structured through systems of visibility, access, and control.

Drawing on local internet histories and practices of circulation, the work approaches memory as something that persists in fragments across people, platforms, and time. The interface produces an assemblage, where adjacency produces meaning, where fragments placed side by side generate relations that exceed any one narrative. As the performance unfolds, navigation becomes an act of composition. Each movement across the interface reassembles memory producing a field of tensions between different ways of seeing, recording, and remembering place.