It was me. Diary 1900-1999
Daniela Comani’s project « It was me. Diary 1900-1999 » exists in three versions: as audio-installation, as digital print on vinyl cloth and as book. The text is a diary of 365 days – from January 1st to December 31st – siting events that occured in the 20th Century. Since it is written in the first person, the narrator assumes alternatively both the role of the culprit and the victim introducing an impossible author of the century ?s world history. The chronology in the appendix indicates the years of the events.
History is changing continually, everything is changing continually.
Daniela Comani re-write her own history from societies’ histories.
To reflect this moving feeling of time, history reenact itself at each moment
Re-enacting life, this work is the viewer snapshot of history on present.
What more causal than to use Daniela Comani re-writting of history to reflect the moving part of time.
Does re-enactment only a reflect of this moving time?
Python and PHP scripts.
Google, Duckduckgo, baidu engines to get « actual » history evidences.
Moving art.