ABSTRACT
‘Dancing With Imagined Memories’ contains scenes from a film that has never been produced. Moving between autobiography, neuroscience, theatrical writing and speculative philosophy, the story describes the experiences of a woman whose identity is profoundly impacted after a traumatic brain injury. Trying to make sense of the connection between internal memories, unfamiliar emotions and descriptions recorded in medical reports, the protagonist shifts between the experiences of me, her, them and I.
Switching between medical, scientific and cinematic textual registers, Dancing With Imagined Memories uses the performative potential of speech utterances to reimagine medicine’s rehabilitative routines. What if, rather than attempting to reconstruct behaviours and identities, clinical neuroscience opened itself to the power of plasticity – allowing bodies of knowledge and bodies of experience to interact and perform in new ways?
