thE CABINET OF MEMORIES the Cabinet of Memories investigates the emotional relation to the memory and focuses on the extreme manifestation of emotional states / the crying. the spectator travels through three rooms: the Room of the Individual, the Collective and the Physiological memory. All three rooms have a common feature; they strive to provoke tears in the spectator by awakening the memories. the Room of the Individual memory is dedicated to the personal reliving of the state which makes an individual cry. In the Room of the Collective memory, brief TV and film fragments are shown on the screen, selected for their emotional states and models, and capable of bringing an individual to tears. Any visitor can choose, depending on his/her disposition or present mood, between a melodramatic scene, family tragedy, nuclear catastrophe, burlesque humour, holocaust, daeth of a beloved leader, declaration of indipendence, etc. the Room of the Physiological memory is dedicated to chemical prompting of the visitor's tears. the visitor can decide on individual or group tear donation. In the first case, his teares are gathered in little test-tubes and every donor receives a cetificate (golden, silver or just a written receipt, depending on the Room in which he has shed his/her teares). In the case of group donation, the tears are collected and classified on the basis of eye colour. Tears as an aesthetical object this state of mind is also entangled in the Cabinet of Memories, the so-called theatrical ("teardonor") session. It is a part of the Camillo project which got the name after the renaissance genius. Emil Hrvatin, the author of the performance, believes that Camillo is a forerunner of the Internet. In art there is even possible to donate tears which are in fact not needed by anyone, or in another words, this "need" is manifested only in the field of aesthetics. the act of tear-donating means (re)theorization and instrumentalization of act which is inseparable part of the viewer's perception, especially in the theatre with a strong emotional note (melodrama); or we can even cry "for no reason". Hrvatin distribute "reasons" for crying into three relating groups: individual, collective and physiological reasons. In three separated rooms the spectator has the oporutnity to cry by confronting his/her individual experience, recalling it by confrontation of the traumatic scenes or just by physiological stimulation of eye - glands where memory is no longer needed. the response itself is left to an individual - this is a performance of an intimate theatre where the viewer is the protagonist. Such a confrontation with himself has no ritual, religious or metaphysical charge as some similar utter artistic intimate scene may have (deep sadness, weeping for the dead, confession, erotic act…). Tears do appear but only as a result of a stimulation of man's psychophysical body. In a memory chamber, the donator comprehends that crying can be rational and that is laughing that may not be stimulated. the Cabinet of Memories is genuine and thoughtful manifestation (some kind of auto-performance) which is nice to a candidate and instructive for the creators. Technical information I. Places the cabinets are separated places which are sound isolated. 1. Places of individual memory - utter dimensions 1.1 x 1.3 x 2m 2. Place of collective memory - utter dimensions 1.1 x 1.7 x 2m 3. Place of physiological memory - cupola made of Plexiglas: 1.3m high, bottom diameter 0.8m 4. Waiting room in which there are preparations of the donator. Organiser must assure a table and four chairs and one fresh onion for each visitor. II. Technical equipment - 3 camcorders or 3 cameras with recorders - a video for back projection with possibility to perform mirror pictures; possibility to perform pictures directly from the computer - a touch screen - a computer 18 GB III. Personnel - 2 hostesses during the whole event (they should got lessons of the equipment a day before the event) IV. Duration - 4 hours a day if the manifestation lasts for several days, or 8 hours a day if the event lasts only one or two days - approximately 3 visitor every 15 minutes V. Setting up - 8 hours