we are all memory bodies proposes to be a new group exhibition exploring our relationships between felt experience and memory; tracing story, connection and humanity in caring, hopeful, encouraging ways. Made up of a collection of six participatory artworks by eight artists, it is full of things to touch, to sense, to feel, to rest in. The exhibition incorporates a variety of ways for audiences to engage with it; through hands-on invitations to work with crafts and tactile materials, conversation, listening, watching and resting.

Each work aims to shine a light on different curiosities held in these entanglements of memory and bodily sensation, inviting audiences to come into their tactile, porous, relational body and share in simple, but surprisingly profound acts of doing and making and sharing; co-creating a space of belonging, daydreaming, imagining, remembering, creating, exchanging, reflecting, refreshing.

For Making Space, Charlotte will be specifically focusing on experimenting with one work within the exhibition, Memory Table. Sitting around a table, two performers use a collection of everyday objects to evoke a series of tactile, sensory memories. Charlotte is curious to explore the rituals, expectations and potentials of a group of strangers sat around a table with a collection of familiar objects. How can the experience of the encounter enable a sense of intimacy to arise amongst and between audiences whereby impromptu, perhaps moving, perhaps funny memories are recalled and can be aired, shared? In what ways might lighting and sound play a role? How can the objects be transformed and used to transport audiences to unexpected places, atmospheres, contexts? How can accessibility, particularly audio description be seamlessly integrated into the experience?

Memory Table along with three other artworks from the exhibition featuring artists, Becky Edmunds, Alberto Ruiz Soler and Zoe Manders will be shared with a small audience on Thursday 27th February. More details can be found here.