Kai-Oi Jay Yung, ‘Still from ‘Amnesia; A Rehearsal”, Video, 2010. Photo: Kai-Oi Jay Yung. Courtesy: Kai-Oi Jay Yung. Amnesia: A Rehearsal
29 minutes 31 seconds 2010
Amnesia: A Rehearsal is a psychological anti-narrative based on the intertwined biographies of Sarah Winchester, Jane Austen and chance internal crossings of the artist herself with Marigold Verity, a harpist in Sherborne.
In 2007, as part of a wider research trip across Hong Kong and California, Yung journeyed to San Jose to interview Shozo Kagoshima, director of the million-dollar labyrinth mansion; the Winchester Mystery House. Three years later, the compulsion to revisit the figure of Sarah Winchester and a tortured existence consumed by s?ces and never ending construction repeats itself through Yung?s own memory and need to re-enact an unresolved history.
Combining script, performance and undirec