A Memo to Charlie Parker

Introduction to the Exhibition THE TIME OF OUR IMAGE

A Memo to Charlie Parker is an interactive lecture that serves as the introduction for the exhibition The Time

of Our Image, which is bound to take place from September until October 2013 at the Tallinn Art Hall as part

of the Tallinn Month of Photography Festival.

Rather than performing and delivering an ABC–story on the intentions of an exhibition to come, A Memo to

Charlie Parker puts forward a selection of resources: film and video fragments, excerpts from novels,

interviews and theoretical reflections, as objects of reflection and interaction for an audience.

The lecture is intended to foreground the two key positions of the exhibition: to slice through the dichotomy of

past, present and future and focus on the conditions of the present moment instead, and secondly, to address

the speculative and fictive (constructed, manipulated) nature of images in giving shape to and ceasing the

present moment, the now.

In that, the lecture takes the shape of 18 memo’s (attributed to the song Now’s the Time by Charlie Parker)

which are linked to the outcome of multiplying the eyes of two dices. Members of the audience are invited to

throw the dices and read from or watch the corresponding resource.

A Memo to Charlie Parker is composed and delivered by Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk