Looking through Sarah Bay-Cheng’s notions of temporality, what seemed to most resonate with me were her notions of time in performance and the Steinian/Bergsonian notion. Essentially it means, time is not a linear progression, but rather a stack, that can occur simultaneously or independently. This also brought up the issue of how technology can rewrite history, in a way like never before. By manipulating the media a state can effectively create a fake history, that is accepted and believed because the society doesn’t know anything else. For example, in North Korea they believe they won the world cup. This is because all of their media coverage supported this claim, and as all media is state controlled the majority of the population never have any evidence to disprove this.

Multimedia plays a massive part in modern day culture, dictating what information one can access, through a variety of mediums. Yet it is all filtered down. The search engine you use lets you view what it deems suitable, the news you watch is carefully selected, deciding what is important enough to cover, the news you read is the same. All the information you know about the world could be a lie. Obviously this is pretty extreme as people travel abroad ect, but it does make you question what is real? Or what is truth? Before we start some Matrix related conspiracy I’ll bring it back to the performance.

What if we used multimedia to rewrite history? A major moment perhaps caught on camera? Digital editing and live bodies can be used to change an event, and explore the aftermath.