Encoding<>Decoding

encoding><decoding In encoding><decoding, the dancer and choreographer Ziv Frenkel enters into dialogue with the work 1001 lights by Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer. encoding><decoding deals with the complex connection between present experience, the act of generating memory as well as the act of remembering itself. The focus of Frenkel's work is on mechanisms of the process of remembering and the image that both past and present life is an essential part of future memories.  Steps of the remembrance process can be described as Encoding and Decoding. Encoding refers to the process of transforming what is perceived and experienced into a form that makes it possible for the individual to remember it. The experienced can be recalled or decoded at a later point in time and can thus be re- experienced. The weekly repetitive ritual of Shabbat evening prayer with its physical and sensual experience can also be transformed and encoded…