Installation, computerized lights and sound
1989

Commissioned by The Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.

“‘The Memory Core’ [is a] large, blackened, theater-like room entered through a velvet curtain.  In it, as the short sequence begins, only a minimal stage set made from glowing white pipe and wood is visible. Soon, however, with the addition of projections and electronically sequenced movements, sound and light, the set becomes the star performer in Beckman’s theater of the mind, gently leading the viewer’s imagination … through a creaky door, down a stairway and into the basementlike space that serves as metaphor for the world of memory.” — Jo Ann Lewis, The Washington Post (June 8, 1989)

• Lewis, Jo Ann. “Multimedia Marvels.” THE WASHINGTON POST, June, 1989
• Gordon, Kelly. “Ericka Beckman: Recent Work.” HIRSHHORN MUSEUM (exhibition document), 1989