The Museum of the Moment invites you to experience history through the prism of the present.
Seeing the city through small moments: everyday life, thoughts, ideas, reflections, gossip. These are, after all, the things which construct day-to-day life and make places meaningful.
The Museum of the Moment will not tell you a ’story’ of a place, instead it invites you to connect with a series of histories, moments in time ranging from the construction of the medieval burgage plots, along which the arcades are built, to the story of individual shops or reflections on the recent past.
As you walk you will hear fragments of conversations or interlinked monologues which invite you to first of all re-look at the city and secondly to re-look at your perception of history; the story of a place in relation to time.
This piece has been made during a period, or moment, of great change in Cardiff, through the building of SD2 and also a time of great change globally. The audio walk is also a document of this period.
What is history after all but mediated memories of our moment by moment experience?